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Check out these definitions of theology, all of which I found in one place or another in my class notes:<\/p>\nCheck out these definitions of theology, all of which I found in one place or another in my class notes:<\/p>\n
The most basic definition is \u201cThe study (logos<\/em>) of God (theos<\/em>).\u201d<\/p>\n The most common definition of theology is \u201cfaith seeking understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n The broadest definition is \u201cOne\u2019s attempt to comprehend his or her religious beliefs.\u201d<\/p>\n Here is what Lewis Sperry Chafer wrote:<\/p>\n Systematic Theology is the collecting, scientifically arranging comparing, exhibiting, and defending of all facts from any and every source concerning God and His works.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Charles Hodge said this:<\/p>\n Theology is the science of the facts of divine revelation so far as those facts concern the nature of God and our relation to Him, as His creatures, as sinners, and as the subjects of redemption.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And we cannot forget Millard Erickson:<\/p>\n Theology is that discipline which strives to give a coherent statement of the doctrines of the Christian faith, based primarily upon the Scriptures, placed in the context of culture in general, worded in a contemporary idiom, and related to issues of life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Doesn’t theology sound great?!<\/p>\n Here’s one that is a little condescending, but which I think was meant as a joke:<\/p>\n I love G. K. Chesterton! He can even bring humor to dry and dusty definitions of theology.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not that these definitions are wrong. They aren\u2019t. And it\u2019s not that theology is boring. It really isn’t.<\/p>\n![\"Gk](\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/gk_theology_shirt.jpg\" "\\"gk_theology_shirt\\"")
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