Speaking to an ongoing dialogue between social anthropology and theology, anthropologist Joel Robbins, one of the leading voices in this conversation, has suggested that one of the key differences between the disciplines is in their capacity for judgement [@Robbins_2020]. Even though social anthropology has moved on from its erstwhile 'doctrine' of cultural relativism and has moved toward more 'activist' modes of research, it struggles to provide space and training for articulating standpoints and coming to responsible forms of judgement. In lieu of such training, a lot of anthropologists fall back on intuitive and often liberal humanist ideas about what counts as good. Drawing from interviews with students of a master's programme at a Dutch confessional theology university, this paper discusses the way they learn to judge. It argues that pedagogies of judgement, rather than epistemologies of judgement, which often falter on the aporia of description versus prescription, offer a more grounded way of comparing theology and social anthropology.