Who Needs Systematic Theology?
Every Christian needs systematic theology. This article looks at common areas of agreement in church history to highlight the need for dogmatics.
Every Christian needs systematic theology. This article looks at common areas of agreement in church history to highlight the need for dogmatics.
There are many goals of preaching, yet this article focuses on one: helping the hearers think and read for themselves. It encourages pastors to exercise their skills for this end. Definitions of exegesis, biblical theology, and systematic theology are offered in the article as well.
What do you think about Systematic Theology? While it seeks to answer the question, "What does the Bible say about any given topic?" this article discusses the strengths and dangers of systematic theology.
Vanhoozer writes about the use of the Bible in systematic theology. He focuses on doctrine as the linchpin between biblical interpretation and theological truth. Vanhoozer reflects on truth and interpretation in the current theological climate and the task of interpretation.
This article is a critical examination of the theological method of three recent systematic theology textbooks from an evangelical perspective. The analysis takes place via the respective views of the Trinity and ecclesiology.
In this essay Gaffin concentrates on the inherent vigour of Reformed systematic theology and how best to preserve and nurture its strengths. He first addresses the matter of Reformed systematic theology’s use of its own exegetical tradition given in the discipline of biblical theology as developed by Geerhardus Vos.
This article shows how systematic theology can be used in preaching to ensure that the preacher is preaching the whole counsel of God, providing a balanced diet for God's people.
This article shows how systematic theology can be used in preaching in a way that focus is given to the teaching of scripture.
Contrasting biblical theology and systematic theology, this article shows that one difference between the two lies in their premises. Systematic theology assumes the diversity of scripture, while biblical theology assumes unity.
This article looks at the differences between biblical theology and systematic theology. The author also looks at the usefulness of systematizing theology to better understand doctrine.
This article compares and contrasts biblical theology and systematic theology.
In seeking to apply the theory of perspectivism to Bible reading, this article shares principles that must govern such an application of perspectives. These principles are: aspects of the use of language, the relationship between systematic theology terms and biblical terms, the limitedness of knowledge we possess, the different perspectives of biblical writers, and the biblical motifs and their relationship to the biblical message.
The term "salvation" (Greek, soteria) has given us the name for a central category of systematic theology (soteriology). However many discussions of the doctrine of salvation do not give much attention to the actual Biblical use of the word group related to salvation. In Systematic Theology the approach is to synthesize the various Biblical concepts, and the terms for salvation occur with relative rarity.