Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by Dr. Archie Spencer
Categories: Top 10 Tags: God • Theology
Reason #3.
Philosophy Needs Theology
Why do we need theology when we already have philosophy? Precisely the reason we need theology! Theology, at a minimum, is a constant reminder to human wisdom that a transcendent judgment stands over all human attempts to arrive at God through pure human sapentia alone. God’s wisdom stands over against human wisdom. [...]
Posted on September 24th, 2007 by Dr. Archie Spencer
Categories: Theology • Top 10 Tags: God • Theology
Reason #4.
Simply put, neither science nor philosophy can supply all the answers to some of life’s most perplexing questions. Where did we come from? Why are we here? and whither are we going? Where they draw a blank on these questions theology comes in with solid answers that give hope and explain an otherwise inexplicable [...]
Posted on June 14th, 2007 by Dr. Archie Spencer
Categories: Theology • Top 10 Tags: Church • Culture • Theology
Reason #5.
The fact is, much of what remains of western culture can be traced back to the philosophical and theological roots of the early Church and its encounter with Greeco-Roman culture. To not know the theological aspect of what has been the predominant source of culture is to be only half educated in respect to [...]
Posted on May 25th, 2007 by Dr. Archie Spencer
Categories: Theology • Top 10 Tags: Church • God • Theology
Reason #6.
Simply put, liturgy lives from its theology and dies for lack of it. With out a solid grounding in theology those who perform and participate in the church’s worship neither are capable of bringing the church fully into the presence of God, nor make participants fully realize the eternal weight of Glory that grounds [...]
Posted on May 16th, 2007 by Dr. Archie Spencer
Categories: Theology • Top 10 Tags: Scripture • Theology
Reason #7.
Evangelism: Properly understood and carefully learned theology enables you to be more articulate when expressing your faith. The scriptures tell us to ‘always be ready to give a reason for our faith.’ In the long run theology is precisely this; I believe Christ is my savior because… . It is critical to be clear, [...]
Posted on April 27th, 2007 by Dr. Archie Spencer
Categories: Theology • Top 10 Tags: Church • God • Theology
Reason #8.
Theology has great potential as a teaching tool for the church. In fact the whole concept of systematic theology was not just about trying to describe the whole of reality in systematic terms but about the orderly catechesis of the faithful. As a teaching tool it enables you to think [...]
Posted on April 19th, 2007 by Dr. Archie Spencer
Categories: Theology • Top 10 Tags: Bible • God • Theology
Reason #9.
You need theology because, lets face it, we all talk about God at some point in time. Wouldn’t you want to speak about God intelligently, with at least a basic idea of who, and what we are talking about? We are all theologians of sorts, why not be [...]
Posted on April 3rd, 2007 by Dr. Archie Spencer
Categories: Emergent Tags: Bible • Church
I have been teaching a series called “Principles of our Faith” lately at one of our local Fellowship churches and one of the questions people keep asking me is; “what do you think of the concept ‘emerging church’”? My answer is always the same. The emerging church, like Postmodernity, is a [...]
Posted on April 2nd, 2007 by Dr. Archie Spencer
Categories: Theology • Top 10 Tags: Theology
Reason #10.
Theology used to be known as the "queen of the Sciences" and, while the claim is no longer considered valid, it is a fact that it has contributed significantly to how we attain knowledge today. The modern university, for instance, was conceived by and in the study of theology.
Posted on February 28th, 2007 by Dr. Archie Spencer
Categories: Church • Theology Tags: Church • Culture • Gospel • Religion
In a recent essay I wrote on the future of evangelical ecclesiology I came to the following conclusion regarding the need to engage the culture in a different way. “We need to “disestablish” and “disengage” ourselves today if we hope to bring anything meaningful from Evangelical ecclesiology to culture. “Until we [...]
Posted on February 21st, 2007 by Dr. Archie Spencer
Categories: Baptist Tags: Bible • Church • God • Theology
A recent email from a colleague describes a decision made at his church regarding their Baptist identity. It begged a response and so I have followed this quote from the email with my own response. The email states as follows:
"We have stopped making reference to being "Baptist" for a few reasons. First, the denominational distinctives [...]
Posted on January 18th, 2007 by Dr. Archie Spencer
Categories: Book Reviews Tags: Church • Culture • God • Jesus • Religion • Theology
Luigi Giussani, At the Origins of the Christian Claim Trans. V. Hewitt; Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-7735-1714-6 (Cloth): ISBN 0-7735-1627-1 (Paper)
In his “Religious Sense”, Luigi Giussani laid the foundations for a defense of the inherent religious impulse of the human that requires a totalizing answer [...]
