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Connecting the Dots: Why Systematic Theology Matters
Vol. 12, No. 1 • Jan/Feb 2003
One subject that brings even fundamentalists and liberals together is the criticism of systematic theology. For instance, many of us were reared to suspect that if someone clearly embraced some particular system (e.g., Calvinist, Arminian, or Lutheran), then that would probably lead to the suppression of biblical teaching wherever specific passages didn’t easily fit into […]
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Who needs Systematic Theology When We Have the Bible?
One subject that brings even fundamentalists and liberals together is the criticism of systematic theology. For instance, many of us were reared to suspect that if someone clearly embraced some particular system (e.g., Calvinist, Arminian, or Lutheran), then that would probably lead to the suppression of biblical teaching wherever specific passages didn’t easily fit into […]
Line Upon Line
At last year’s National Religious Broadcasters convention, Michael Horton sat down with Kay Arthur to discuss Precept Ministries and the Inductive Bible Study method that Jack and Kay Arthur have taught to thousands of people every year, since the 1970s. This interview is excerpted from the original interview, which was recorded for the White Horse […]
Why Must Christian Theology Conform to Scripture?
Christian theologians have always viewed Scripture as the authoritative repository of true Christian faith. As J. N. D. Kelly, in Early Christian Doctrines, states: Christianity came into the world as a religion of revelation, and as such claimed a supernatural origin for its message…. God Himself, all the early theologians acknowledged, was the ultimate author […]
Thinking Systematically about Theology
Today, especially in academic settings, it is regularly assumed that the Christian Scriptures can no longer be taken at face value, as they were for the first eighteen hundred years of the church’s life. For many, it seems obvious that something about our contemporary experience prohibits us from reading the Bible straightforwardly as a faithful […]
Amateurs All? Christians and Bible Reading
Most American Protestants, whether liberal or evangelical, are egalitarians when it comes to the reading and study of Scripture. They tend to be committed to the American proposition that “all men”-and women-“are created equal” not simply because they are patriotic or democratic but also because their doctrine of Scripture drives them to it. The logic […]
Why God Gave Us the Bible
In the dead of night, when most people are savoring the final hours of a good night’s sleep, some teenage boys were wide awake and about to experience the final moments of a tragedy. A powerful motorcycle, a bold dare, youthful folly, a dark slippery street, and a tree converged in time to send our […]
