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To Know and Love God: Method for Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

It is the job of all believers, not just theologians, to serve God by discerning what is true about the crucial issues of life. Our task is to learn more about God. Our privilege is to love God passionately with our minds. Clearly then, spiritual life must have theology as one of its ingredients, but this, by itself, will not guarantee a vibrant spiritual life. Rather, evangelicals must link a...

The period of cultural upheaval after World War I called for new beginnings in theology. In August 1914, ninety-three German intellectuals signed a document supporting the German Kaiser’s imperialistic war effort. A disgusted Karl Barth found the names of most of his theology professors on the document. Liberalism had displayed its true colors as the form of Christian theology that fully grants the claims of modernity.1 Barth’s public break with
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