Up until the thirteenth century, most theology was done by monks who lived in monasteries but all of that changed with the founding of the universities. With the rise of these new institutions, theological methodology itself changed from one described as "monastic theology" to "scholastic theology." And with that change came a new vision of who could be considered a "theologian"; that is, a new vision of theological anthropology emerged to accommodate the new way of doing theology. This talk will lay out that development but argue that we should return to the methodology of the monastic theologian, built upon a monastic theological anthropology.