The Revd Dr Stephen Cherry is the Dean of King's College Cambridge and an active writer and speaker on Christian spirituality and practical theology. He was previously a Residentiary Canon of Durham Cathedral and Director of Ministerial Development and Parish Support for the diocese of Durham.

This is an unusual and original book designed to interest and encourage those thinking of studying theology or religious studies as an academic discipline - more specifically, those thinking of reading it at university. Unlike many academic subjects, Cherry argues, theology is more a matter of the questions you ask, than any traditional certainties: 'as an enterprise [it] only makes sense if you know that you don't know all the answers already.' Supporting his thesis by a sweeping history of Christianity in 20 Tweets, the Dean of Kings College, Cambridge, gives an interesting and thoughtful introduction to a subject that has increasingly come to fascinate him the more he has studied it.

• 1. Confessions of a Reluctant Theologian. 2. In the Beginning. 3. Why Study Theology?. 4. Jesus of Nazareth and Richard Dawkins. 5. The Antidote to Fundamentalism. 6. Philosophy and Theology - A Platonic Relationship. 7. The Joy of Words. 8. A History of Theology in Fewer Than Twenty Tweets. 9. Pictures, Poetry and God. 10. The Company of Theologians.

The Revd Dr Stephen Cherry is the Dean of King's College Cambridge and an active writer and speaker on Christian spirituality and practical theology. He was previously a Residentiary Canon of Durham Cathedral and Director of Ministerial Development and Parish Support for the diocese of Durham.

This is an unusual and original book designed to interest and encourage those thinking of studying theology or religious studies as an academic discipline - more specifically, those thinking of reading it at university. Unlike many academic subjects, Cherry argues, theology is more a matter of the questions you ask, than any traditional certainties: 'as an enterprise [it] only makes sense if you know that you don't know all the answers already.' Supporting his thesis by a sweeping history of Christianity in 20 Tweets, the Dean of Kings College, Cambridge, gives an interesting and thoughtful introduction to a subject that has increasingly come to fascinate him the more he has studied it.

• 1. Confessions of a Reluctant Theologian. 2. In the Beginning. 3. Why Study Theology?. 4. Jesus of Nazareth and Richard Dawkins. 5. The Antidote to Fundamentalism. 6. Philosophy and Theology - A Platonic Relationship. 7. The Joy of Words. 8. A History of Theology in Fewer Than Twenty Tweets. 9. Pictures, Poetry and God. 10. The Company of Theologians.