Systematic theology is for proclamation. When properly done, it fosters, advocates, and drives to proclamation. This presupposes at the outset a basic distinction between systematic theology and proclamation. Indeed, a major difficulty in usual discussions of the matter is that systematic theology and proclamation tend so easily to be confused. When that happens it is invariably proclamation that is obscured. Proclamation gets displaced by explanation, teaching, lecturing, persuasion,
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