TY - JOUR AB - 'rheology and Agriculture III REASONS THAT JUSTIFY THE TEACHING OF AGRIĀ­ CULTURAL PRINCIPLES IN THEOLOGICAL COLLEGES AND THEOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES IN AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL COLLEGES [NOTE.-The Christian community in Nigeria is rural, and the future wellbeing of the Christian Church there depends, in large part, upon a sound, progressive, and balanced development of that community. At Asaba, under the Rev. Kenneth Prior, the C.M.S., the Church of Scotland Mission, and the Methodist Mission are participating in a considerable experiment in rural development. At the back of this experiment is the need for giving clear expression to the inter-relation of theology and agriculture. The notes below were drafted by Mr Prior, and are published here (and in America) in the hope that they will receive criticism, which should be sent to the Rev. K. Prior, Rural Training Centre, Asaba, Nigeria.] THE only significant religion is one which starts where man is, and with the facts and the problems of that concrete situation, and goes with man whatever he does and whatever he meets. No real religion will submit to detachment from life, because the real world knows nothing of watertight compartments, and religion is man's response to the single meaning of TI - Theology and Agriculture JO - Theology DO - 10.1177/0040571X4905234303 DA - 1949-01-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/theology-and-agriculture-y9mxlGgiyw SP - 16 EP - 17 VL - 52 IS - 343 DP - DeepDyve ER -