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A Little Book for New Theologians: Why and How to Study Theology (Little Books) is unavailable, but you can change that!

Whenever we read, think, hear or say anything about God, we are doing theology. Yet theology isn't just a matter of what we think. It affects who we are. In the tradition of Helmut Thielicke's A Little Exercise for Young Theologians, Kelly Kapic offers a concise introduction to the study of theology for newcomers to the field. He highlights the value and importance of theological study and...

that remain helpful. One such distinction is between archetypal and ectypal knowledge of God.1 The truth is not in the middle, and not in one extreme, but in both extremes. Charles Simeon, quoted in John Stott, Christ the Controversialist Archetypal knowledge of God is that knowledge by which God perfectly knows himself. Neither finitude nor sin limits him. He knows all things. Most centrally, God fully knows himself. Ectypal knowledge is that understanding we have of God by means of his self-revelation,
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