Because of piety's penchant for taking itself too seriously, theology - more than literary, humanistic, and scientific studies - does well to nurture a modest, unguarded sense of comedy. Some comic sensibility is required to keep in due proportion the pompous pretensions of the study of divinity... This comes from glimpsing the incongruity of humans thinking about God... The most enjoyable of all subjects has to be God, because God is the source of all joy. God has the first and last laugh. The least articulate of all disciplines [theology] deserves something in between.

-Thomas C. Oden, The Living God