Objections to Theology (1 of 6 notes)

Part One
INTRODUCTION: 3 WHY THEOLOGY?
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker

Thiessen quotes Orr:

Everyone must be aware that there is at the present time a great prejudice against doctrine - or, as it is often called “dogma”-in religion; a great distrust and dislike of clear and systematic thinking about divine things. Men prefer, one cannot help seeing, to live in a region of haze and indefiniteness in regard to these matters. They want their thinking to be fluid and indefinite--something that can be changed with the times, and with the new lights which they think are being constantly brought to bear upon it, continually taking on new forms, and leaving the old behind.²

2            Henry C. Thiessen, Systematic Theology (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1951), p. 23.

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