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© John Stevenson, 2012 Introduction to Theology

Dr. John T. Stevenson Family Life Academic Life

Family Life Academic Life Professional Life Dr. John T. Stevenson

Family Life Academic Life Professional Life Spiritual Life Ministry Life Dr. John T. Stevenson

Group Introductions Your name Your home church Where are you in the TIU process? What is your current ministry within the Kingdom?

Dr. John T. Stevenson

Course Objectives Summarize the nature of systematic theology.Summarize the nature of systematic theology. Verify the importance of systematic theology.Verify the importance of systematic theology. Execute a valid, basic method for doing theology.Execute a valid, basic method for doing theology. Review key concepts, issues, questions, and biblical texts in the doctrines of God, Scripture, Christ, Salvation, Humanity and Sin, the Church, and the Future.Review key concepts, issues, questions, and biblical texts in the doctrines of God, Scripture, Christ, Salvation, Humanity and Sin, the Church, and the Future.

Course Objectives Distinguish major theological views of major doctrines in systematic theology.Distinguish major theological views of major doctrines in systematic theology. Assess evidence used to support particular theological positions.Assess evidence used to support particular theological positions. Produce personal positions on particular Christian doctrines.Produce personal positions on particular Christian doctrines. Evaluate aspects of their life and ministry in light of biblical truth.Evaluate aspects of their life and ministry in light of biblical truth.

Bible Doctrine: Essential Teachings of the Christian Faith By Wayne Grudem

The Religious Life of Theological Students By Benjamin Warfield

Charts of Christian Theology and Doctrine By Wayne House

Doctrines of the Bible: Outlines in Systematic Theology RedeemerPublishing.com

Worksheets Applied Learning Paper Final Exam Participation Total Points 50 % 30 % 15 % 5 % 100 %

Where are you in the Roman Catholic Eastern Orthodox Episcopal Reformed Arminian Evangelical Charismatic Emergent Fundamentalist Christianity

Theos + Logos

About man’s religious experiences with God. About man’s opinion of what God ought to be like.

Theology is the study of God’s revelation of Himself to man

Can you discover the depths of God? Can you discover the limits of the Almighty? They are high as the heavens, what can you do? Deeper than Sheol, what can you know? (Job 11:7-8).

Man Knowledge Gap

Problems in Theology The Finite versus the InfiniteThe Finite versus the Infinite Holy versus SinfulHoly versus Sinful Reality versus DescriptionReality versus Description

Which view more accurately depicts the Atlantic Ocean?

Refrigerator Drawings

NaturalTheologyExegeticalTheology SystematicTheologyHistoricalTheology PracticalTheologyBiblicalTheology

Our little systems have their day, They have their day and cease to be. They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, O Lord, are more than they.

ConeOfUncertainty Theology The Bible Accurate & infallible

Acts 17:10-12 The brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews. 11 Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so. 12 Therefore many of them believed, along with a number of prominent Greek women and men.

Discuss the following objections and report to class Systematic theology is man-made, and it illegitimately squeezes God into a logical box. God is beyond human logic.Systematic theology is man-made, and it illegitimately squeezes God into a logical box. God is beyond human logic. Systematic theology reflects western thinking; it is not helpful for the global church.Systematic theology reflects western thinking; it is not helpful for the global church. Systematic theology is only for academics, not for regular Christians.Systematic theology is only for academics, not for regular Christians.

Dangers in Studying Theology DivisionDivision PridePride Dependence upon KnowledgeDependence upon Knowledge Accepting Man’s False TeachingsAccepting Man’s False Teachings