Historically, the singular discipline of university study. As late as the eighteenth century, it was conventional to regard theology as the “science” of the “divine.” The university’s stated mission to systematize the totality of knowledge according to the methods of semi-discrete “disciplines” at best partially conceals its appropriation of this pre-secular idiolect. The uncomfortable proximity is manifest in the physical location of today’s theology “departments” (seminaries), which are typically adjacent to but institutionally autonomous from the universities that are their namesakes. To what extent the university encourages theological inquiry, even as an ironic transmutation of its founding purpose, is quite intentionally repressed. Nevertheless, it may not be unwarranted to speculate: instead of progress toward understanding the infinite (its original mandate), the modern university attempts infinite progress toward understanding.