Transforming Theology: Responsibility

From Reclaiming Church, p. 23: The vast majority of lay people and even most pastors deny that they are theologians. For them, theology is something to be done by scholars in universities and theological schools. Lay people and pastors do not understand themselves as responsible to think as Christians. Such responsibility as they accept is for the operation of the church, the adjudication of disputes that arise within it, and moral judgments in response to issues posed to them, usually by the secular world.

When did the business of church become more important and more acceptable than seeking to know God? Why have we encouraged this behavior and this pattern?

Also, I work with a pastor who sees himself as a theologian. However, by his own admission, he'd much rather sit in a comfortable chair and discuss theology than actually act on his convictions. The acceptable perception is that the "scholars" should sit and talk about theology, and the rest of the church should just get busy and do something. Theology rarely informs or influences the action. Why have we allowed this to be the case? When did we expect people to either be theologians or worker bees?