THE STUDY OF THEOLOGY : from biblical interpretation to contemporary formulation

by Richard A. Muller
238 pages
Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company (February 11, 1991)

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Richard Muller was Professor of Historical Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary when he wrote The Study of Theology. He is now P. J. Zondervan Professor of Historical Theology at Calvin Theological Seminary. He is a specialist in post-Reformation dogmatics, but has written on a wide variety of topics.

The book has four sections.

• The Study of Theology: Issues and Problems discusses the fourfold curriculum as an interpretive structure for moving from exegesis to contemporary formulation.
• The Theological Disciplines: Biblical and Historical Foundations offers an interpretive path through biblical/historical to contemporary formulation.
• The Theological Disciplines: Contemporary Statement and Practice offers systematic theology as the methodological comprehension of contemporary and constructive disciplines.
• The Unity of Theological Discourse suggests that the unity of theology includes objective disciplines and subjective involvement.

In this book, Muller intends...

• "to discuss the interpretation or hermeneutical implications of the fourfold curriculum" (xi),
• "to present a case for its structure" (xi),
• "to argue the essential unity of the disciplines in their service to the church" (xi), and
• to present a view of theology that respects tradition and integrates it into the contemporary context (xvi).

More later...(really)

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