This short paragraph is worth reading 3-5 times, bearing in mind that we should all be doing theology.
For theology is the sustained effort to know the character, will, and acts of the triune God as he has disclosed and interpreted these for his people in Scripture, to formulate these in a systematic way in order that we might know him, learn to think our thoughts after him, live our lives in his world on his terms, and by thought and action project his truth into our own time and culture. David Wells, “The Theologians Craft,” in Doing Theology in Today’s World, 172.
Thanks, Chris. I’ve not read Wells in some time and have a friend starting a systematic class at Moody (his first Bible course) and will be sure to pass this along. It’s rich, indeed.