Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. Fortunately, there have always been pastors who have understood more about theology than most professors. Nor is theology a private subject of study for pastors. Fortunately, there have repeatedly been congregation members, and often whole congregations, who have pursued theology energetically while their pastors were theological infants or barbarians. Theology is a matter for the Church.
In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.
True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis , because it guarantees complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost a canonical status in Protestant theology. But now, we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical.
There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.
Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics.
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