Definition and Divisions of Theology (11 of 16 notes)

Part One
INTRODUCTION: 4 SOURCES AND DIVISIONS OF THEOLOGY SOURCES
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker

Berkhof expresses a different view. He says that the term dogmatics

is preferable even to the much used name of systematic theology, (1) because it is more specific and designates the real object of the study with greater precision, and (2) because the modifier 'systematic' is apt to give the impression that the study under consideration is the only theological study which treats the subject-matter in logical order... ¹²

12          Louis Berkhof, Systematic Theology (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1941), p. 12.

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