tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8196630391794341478.post8467959197807818493..comments2024-03-27T06:28:06.962-05:00Comments on Homeward Bound: Is Systematic Theology Bad?ChrisBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04611311820554248004noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8196630391794341478.post-5046540818218389402011-02-06T14:36:33.000-06:002011-02-06T14:36:33.000-06:00People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw st...People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.(Those who are vulnerable should not attack others).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8196630391794341478.post-68234301862683867102010-02-21T09:22:57.738-06:002010-02-21T09:22:57.738-06:00Good fill someone in on and this post helped me al...Good fill someone in on and this post helped me alot in my college assignement. Thanks you on your information.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8196630391794341478.post-83200360230666782002010-02-02T12:52:56.898-06:002010-02-02T12:52:56.898-06:00Amiable post and this enter helped me alot in my c...Amiable post and this enter helped me alot in my college assignement. Thanks you as your information.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8196630391794341478.post-57467532653515315092009-12-30T05:14:38.221-06:002009-12-30T05:14:38.221-06:00Unequivocally, ideal answerUnequivocally, ideal answerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8196630391794341478.post-63507245861251130942008-03-08T23:19:00.000-06:002008-03-08T23:19:00.000-06:00Although I've read a lot of theology, the more sys...Although I've read a lot of theology, the more systematic it was, the less useful I found it - for example, Tillich's Systematics vs. his Courage To Be.<BR/><BR/>For me, the worst was Alfred North Whitehead - some huge volume I had to read in div school. This mathematician turned theologian seemed to believe that he had it all figured out - and I mean all. From the least subatomic particle to the mind of God, and, unfortunately, everything in between, which is why it took him like 700 pages to say it, lol.<BR/><BR/>I favor theologians who stick close to lived experience rather than doing modern day equivalents of counting how many angels can stand on the head of a pin.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8196630391794341478.post-87981881324913262012008-03-07T09:57:00.000-06:002008-03-07T09:57:00.000-06:00The danger of systematic theology is not with tryi...The danger of systematic theology is not with trying to balance God's justice/mercy. Only a poor student of God's word would forget about that. The danger of systematic theology is based on how one set of doctrines dictates other viewpoints. <BR/><BR/>Many people allow their firm believe in one issue/doctrine to overrule every other believe/doctrine. They blindly accept the second believe, because they have too...if they are going to hold to their first view. <BR/><BR/>As far as Romans, Ephesians, Hebrews,etc being systematic--that is not the case at all. Paul is trying to communicate a point--a point of theology/living yes...but we dissect his thoughts to basic theology 101. This is our fault. We teach systematically (well, some do--and maybe I shouldn't say we).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8196630391794341478.post-86666625746448142422008-03-06T15:32:00.000-06:002008-03-06T15:32:00.000-06:00Jeremy and ChrisB,"Romans, Ephesians, Hebrews, and...Jeremy and ChrisB,<BR/>"Romans, Ephesians, Hebrews, and I John seem pretty systematic to me. They're fairly systematic -- or maybe I'd say orderly, carefully reasoned -- but a full systematic theology they're not."<BR/><BR/>The author of these books, however, was deeply shaped by and lived in the Story of God unfolded in biblical narrative. We've imposed systematic categories on, let's say, Romans, rather than hear the Story resonating through Paul's orderly structure of the book. You cannot escape the Exodus story booming through chapter 6 of Romans for example.John Fryehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02575709757912510374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8196630391794341478.post-57705360788438647332008-03-05T20:47:00.000-06:002008-03-05T20:47:00.000-06:00Romans, Ephesians, Hebrews, and I John seem pretty...<I>Romans, Ephesians, Hebrews, and I John seem pretty systematic to me.</I><BR/>They're fairly systematic -- or maybe I'd say orderly, carefully reasoned -- but a full systematic theology they're not.<BR/><BR/><I>much of the Bible isn't narrative</I><BR/>Hence my "(more or less)." There is more narrative than didactic (of course, I'm not sure how to classify the prophets in this discussion), but I think their point is that what we're given is a large overarching story (and this from people who dislike "metanarratives") not a theology textbook.<BR/><BR/>Do they take their ideas to excess? Yeah. Like many others. Hence the rest of the post.ChrisBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04611311820554248004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8196630391794341478.post-2293211639186484822008-03-05T18:23:00.000-06:002008-03-05T18:23:00.000-06:00I don't know. Romans, Ephesians, Hebrews, and I Jo...I don't know. Romans, Ephesians, Hebrews, and I John seem pretty systematic to me.<BR/><BR/>Also, much of the Bible isn't narrative. The reduction of the Bible to narrative is as bad as the reduction of the Bible to systematic theology.Jeremy Piercehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03441308872350317672noreply@blogger.com