Part One
INTRODUCTION: 3 WHY THEOLOGY?
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker
INTRODUCTION: 3 WHY THEOLOGY?
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker
The main
objection from one quarter is that so-called knowledge of God is purely
subjective, and therefore relative and lacking in authority. The Bible is rejected
as an authoritative revelation, and it is thus claimed that there is no real basis
for Theology. From another quarter comes the objection that Theology is theoretical,
intellectual, and formal, rather than inspirational, devotional, and practical.
Paul has been quoted as supporting this charge: “for the letter killeth, but
the spirit giveth life” (2 Corinthians 3:6), as
though Paul meant by letter, doctrinal teaching! Doctrines may be
discussed in a cold and unspiritual manner, but this is no fault of the
doctrine but of the persons involved. On the other hand, emotionalism apart
from doctrine may lead to fanaticism. Strong says that ignorance is the mother
of superstition, not of devotion, and he quotes Talbot W. Chambers: “Doctrine
without duty is a tree without fruits: duty without doctrine is a tree without
roots.’’3 Anything professing to
be Scriptural doctrine which is not spiritual and practical is either false or
it represents a very incomplete induction of the facts.
3 Strong,
op. cit., p. 17.
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