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| System Failure | | Date Created: Sep 05, 2003, 01:49 PM |
I used to think theology was relatively easy. One had to search out all the relevant facts, arrange them in systematic order, and voilą—theology! And, of course, most of the facts could be found in standard Reformed theological reference works (like Berkhof) that systematized the scattered propositional truths in the Bible for eager theological students like me.
Sometimes I long for those days when things were so much simpler.
Nowadays, it seems like every time I think I've nailed something theologically, I read an article or essay that pries out the nail and leaves it bent in such a way that I can't even pound it back in. I'm getting tired of replacing nails. Is anything really fastened down permanently? More and more, the only thing I really feel comfortable doing is working through biblical texts. Systematic theology gets harder and harder for me. Every time I arrive at something, it has to be qualified in a hundred different ways.
Am I going crazy? Is this a symptom of some middle-age malady? Does anyone else have the same struggles? |
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