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PostPosted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 7:55 am 
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I just read a wonderful little article in the latest edition (35/1 April 2010) of Themelios (a completely free peer-reviewed online journal that presents a Reformed and/or Calvinist perspective) written by Carl Trueman titled "The Importance of Not Studying Theology". I'd be interested to hear others thoughts about the article. (As an aside, I found its contents to be similar in thrust to the longer gem of a book "Evangelical Theology: An Introduction" by Karl Barth (Wm. B. Eerdmans 1963).

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Carl Trueman wrote:
The study of theology is not a chase after something or a movement beyond where we start our Christian lives; it is rather a reflection upon the foundations of where we already are. The end term is, strange to tell, the beginning. I start by confessing with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and believing in my heart that God raised him from the dead, and I never actually go any further. All my theology, all my study, is simply reflection on what lies behind that. Thus, I never move beyond praise, never leave behind the beauty of adoration of the living God; I simply learn more and more about the deep foundations upon which that praise and worship rest, which all believers share from the most brilliant to the most humble.
Beautifully put.

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