Today, we're pleased to share with you an audio essay written and read by Joel Beakey entitled

Ten Things You Should Know about Reformed Theology.

Joel Beaky is the co-author of the four-volume Reformed Systematic Theology series from Crossway.

Ten Things You Should Know. from Crossway. Ten things you should know about reform theology.

It's written by Joel Beakey and Paul Smalley and read by Joel Beakey.

Number one, reform theology celebrates the glory of God.

The heart and soul of Reformed theology is the glory of the Triune God.

For this reason, it's often called God-centered theology.

B.B. Warfield put it this way. The Calvinist, in a word,

is the man who sees God. God in nature, God in history, God in grace. Everywhere he sees God

in his mighty stepping. Everywhere he feels the working of his mighty arm, the throbbing of his

mighty heart. You see, the magnificent obsession of reformed Christianity, and indeed the very purpose

for which mankind exists, is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever, as the

Westminster Short of Catechism famously says.

Number two, reform theology uses logic, but takes its stand on the Bible.

We must use logic to communicate clearly and coherently.

Otherwise, we speak in empty riddles, don't we? Riddles that darken people's minds instead of bringing light. However, human wisdom cannot lead us to God.

God is so much greater than we are, his ways so much higher than ours,

that we can only know him truly as he makes himself known to us in His Word.

Therefore, reform theology builds all of its doctrines upon the study and interpretation

of the Bible, the written word of God.

John Owen said, the student of theology must demonstrate by his life the absolute authority

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