What Is Theology?
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 29 October 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Because God reveals Himself coherently, it is our responsibility to see how all the pieces of His revelation fit together into a meaningful and coherent whole. Today, R.C. Sproul introduces us to the discipline of systematic theology.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Renewing Your Mind, what is ultimate truth? |
| 0:03.6 | The ultimate truth is the truth of God, and He is the foundation and source of all other truth. |
| 0:11.8 | And everything else we learn, whether it's economics or philosophy or biology or mathematics, |
| 0:18.2 | has to be understood in light of the overarching reality of the character of God. |
| 0:32.0 | In the Middle Ages, theology was called the Queen of the Sciences. |
| 0:36.0 | Unfortunately, the Queen has been overthrown and sent into exile. |
| 0:40.5 | And to most students on college campuses today, the study of God is a foreign concept. |
| 0:46.4 | Today on Renewing Your Mind, RC Sproul will define theology and show us how it incorporates every other discipline. |
| 0:56.4 | When I meet people for the first time, they ask me what I do and I tell them and other things that I teach in seminary, |
| 1:03.6 | and they say, well, what do you teach? |
| 1:06.2 | And I answer by saying I teach systematic theology. |
| 1:11.6 | Now, when somebody says they teach astronomy, everybody knows what they're talking about. |
| 1:17.2 | If they're teaching physics, they know what they're talking about. |
| 1:20.1 | When I tell people I teach systematic theology, I often get blank stares and inevitably the question is, what's that? |
| 1:29.3 | They've heard of theology, but the idea of systematic theology is a term that's become something of an anachronism for an arcane science. |
| 1:41.0 | And what we're going to be doing now is we embark on this whole new series is go over the whole scope of what we call systematic theology. |
| 1:51.0 | It's going to be an introduction to systematic theology. |
| 1:54.6 | And what systematic theology is about is a systematic study of the principal doctrines of the Christian faith. |
| 2:05.1 | And what I want to do today in our first lesson is give a brief introduction to this science of systematic theology and begin with some basic definitions. |
| 2:17.0 | Let's start with the word theology. |
| 2:20.5 | We've all heard this word and we see that it has something in common with a whole lot of disciplines and sciences. |
| 2:29.5 | It has that common suffix,ology. You hear biology, physiology, and anthropology and a host of other sciences that end in that word,ology. |
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