To be a man after God's own heart. Then to lead, labour, inspire and encourage others to be the same
Please find below my notes on chapter 1 of Wayne Grudem’s book Systematic Theology. A couple of notes on my annotations: ‘X’ is short hand for Christ. Fun-fact Greek word for Christ is Christos, and is spelt ‘Χριστός’. I have therefore frequently used ‘X’ to represent Christ – hence ‘Xian’ meaning Christian. I don’t mean…
Read more Systematic Theology 1: Introduction to Systematic Theology
As men and women who want to be pursuers of God’s heart and then lead, labour, inspire and encourage others to be the same. It is important that we maintain a posture of receptivity and learning. We want to be adding to our faith: goodness and to goodness: knowledge. Studying Systematic theology is one way…
Read more Systematic Theology 0: Preface (6 Features of Grudem’s Study)
Forcing myself to get this up and posted. Thanks to everyone who ‘liked’ the previous post – not that I’m doing this for the approval. Because that would be vain of me 😉 and we all know that is not a pitfall battle for me! ;P But, seriously, it is actually encouraging to get the…
Long time coming, maybe we’ll be able to hammer out a bit more consistency over the next few weeks. Who knows. It’s only me putting this pressure on myself to finish the book by the end of 2019. But if that goal is to become a reality we need to pick up our pace. Like…
For those counting – 11 days since my last post. My excuse, training. I was away last week on training and my usual morning routine got scuppered. But we’re back at it now, so for those following along, we’re at the final characteristic of Scripture: Sufficiency. And this is the last chapter on the Doctrine…
Read more Systematic Theology 8: Sufficiency of Scripture (Freedom and Challenge)
Forgive the 2nd post on this topic, but I went away and did some more learning about this doctrine, as you probably noticed – avid, loyal readers of this marvelous blog that you are – the Necessity of Scripture raised an issue for me. One component of the Necessity of Scripture says that Scripture –…
Read more Systematic Theology 7.b: Necessity of Scripture (what about “Jesus-dreams”)
So far we’ve looked at CA of SCAN, this post is about N. The next one will be S, I know, I know, we’ve followed a logical sequence. The Necessity of Scripture means that the Bible is necessary for knowing the Gospel, for maintaining spiritual life, and for knowing God’s will, but it is not…
This is the second part in the 4 characteristics of Scripture (SCAN). We’ve done Authority, now Clarity. After this we’ve got 2 more and we’re finished with the Doctrine of the Word of God. What does the Clarity of Scripture mean?: The clarity of Scripture means that the Bible is written in such a way…
Stretching my wings with this new method, and I think I’ve struck gold. “Inerrancy!? Wait, earlier you said the characteristics of Scripture were spelled out in the Acronym SCAN. Sufficiency, Authority….Where does I. for Inerrancy fit in that?!” Well done, for remembering, Grudem opens this chapter explaining that Inerrancy is usually treated as a sub-section…
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