When Studying Theology…
by coie - January 6th, 2011.Filed under: Uncategorized.
Taken from Boyce’s Abstract of Systematic Theology. Excellent “rules” to go by when studying theology, especially when the subject is new or uncomfortable to you.
These facts show with what spirit we should study Theology:
- With reverence for truth, and especially for the truth taught in the Word of God.
- With earnest prayer for Divine help.
- With careful searching of heart against prejudice.
- With timidity, as to the reception and propagation of new doctrine.
- But with a spirit willing and anxious to examine, and to accept whatever we may be convinced is true.
- With teachable humility, which, knowing that God has not taught us in His Word all the truth that exists, not even all the truth on many a single point, accepts with implicit faith all that He has taught, and awaits his own time for that more full revelation which shall remove all our present perplexities.