I couldn't agree with you more. I have found that there seems to be a general laziness among theologians and preachers. I am not sure if this is what your saying but this is what I have found personally. There are so many that are unwilling to do the work needed before they do that sermon or theological discourse or treatise, what ever one may call it. They only want to repeat what others already said before them.

I see this where people visit my website all the time quoting some ancient theologian or church father on prophetic interpretation. As if they quote and since mine is not the same so I must be wrong, even though my interpretation was more substantive with more scriptural support. They make up their mind without considering the scriptural evidence I gave in support of this new view. I am like,"So what?" It is truly they are all like sheep following each other, even if that is to where the green pasures are few.  

It seems that everyone's attitude is that all proper interpretations have been already written or all proper theological discussion has already occurred. So you see a lot of preachers just copying what other preachers preached on already, without thinking things through. No originality and especially no creativity. Different people, different times but they all repeat each other. No thinking out of the box, no originality, no alowance. Everyone is just supposed to march lock and step single line like we are all robots.

Well when we study scripture we see clearly this is not the case. For instance when the 11 desciples were first taking the gospel to the world after the ascension they found they didn't have a monopoly on the truth as taught by Christ. For Christ selected someone from outside their group and that someone was the Apostle Paul.

Christ taught church doctrine and dogma not through the original 11, rather, through a person that used to chase down Christians and murder them. This same Paul was rediculed and despised by his brothers and sisters in Christ because he refused the accepted church norm at the time of a works based gospel insisting that Holy Spirit convinced him that salvation was by grace and grace only. The rest being history. Paul's Epistles detailing these struggle became a monument to the church encompassing a full 2/3rds of the New Testament all in a new form of creative theology eventually accepted as church doctrine and dogma.