Charts on Systematic Theology

by H. Wayne House; Kyle Roberts

Publisher:

Kregel

, 2006

Overview

The key to studying theology is knowing where to start. With that in mind, H. Wayne House has summarized the major introductory issues in systematic theology in a parallel column format that is easy to follow. Charts on Systematic Theology includes direct quotes from significant theologians on introductory issues central to the study of systematic theology. This allows readers to read key theologians in their own words and quickly grasp the points of comparison and contrast between different theologians and theological systems. Citations and an extensive bibliography direct readers to additional reading.

Key Features

• Clarifies complex theologicalconcepts with easy-to-use charts
• Compiles and explains statements by prominent theologians
• Allows readers to more readily grasp comples theology to facilitate teaching

Contents

Top Highlights

“Objective theologies affirm, to one degree or another, that it is possible to acquire and understand transcendent truth (e.g., God and His relationship to the world) with some confidence and adequacy. The task for objective theologies is to articulate the reality of the transcendent God and His relation to the created order in new situations and contexts. Objective theologies, in the main, seek to do theology ‘from above.’ That is, they desire to know, insofar as it may be possible, either what God Himself knows (to a limited degree) or what God has provided for people to know about Him.” (Page 16)

“At the height of the Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) divided knowledge into two kinds (practical and pure). This distinction was connected to his theory of the difference between phenomena and noumena. Phenomena are the appearances of things as we see, touch, and empirically observe the world around us. The noumena are the things-in-themselves, the objects of our perceptions. We only have knowledge of things insofar as we have perceptions of them and only as the things-in-themselves appear to us. The innate structure of our mind provides the possibility of a kind of scientific certainty of everyday, observable things.” (Page 15)

“They seek to answer many of the same kinds of questions as those of objective theologies (who—or what—is God, what is humanity, what is sin, etc.), but they do so by turning to the realm of human experience, religious feeling, the affective power of symbolism and of metaphorical expression, etc. Subjective theologians focus on the historical situatedness of knowledge (and thus of theology). Since knowledge is historically, culturally, and linguistically conditioned, all theology is a personal perspective, an individuated (though not necessarily individual) response to the reality of God and of divine things.” (Page 16)

Product Details

• Title: Charts on Systematic Theology, Volume 1: Prolegomena
• Authors: H. Wayne House, Kyle Roberts
• Series: Kregel Charts of the Bible and Theology
• Volume: 1
• Publisher: Kregel
• Print Publication Date: 2006
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Pages: 144
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Theology, doctrinal
• ISBNs: 0825427711, 9780825427718
• Resource ID: LLS:CHARTSONSYSTHEO
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T22:36:14Z

About H. Wayne House

H. Wayne House is a distinguished research professor of biblical and theological studies at Faith Evangelical Seminary in Tacoma, Washington. He is also the author of Christian Ministries and the Law: Revised Edition.