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In Recent Trends in Theology, Louis Berkhof offers an appraisal of current topics and thinkers in early nineteenth century theology. He delivered an address on this topic in the spring of 1943 at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, and repeated his lecture at Calvin Theological Seminary later that year. He explores and interacts with thinkers such at Friedrich Schleiermacher, Albrecht Ritschl,...

INTRODUCTION Religion and theology are very closely related, but are by no means identical. Religion is a relationship between man and his God, while theology is the knowledge which man has of God. The question has sometimes been raised, whether religion gave birth to theology, or theology called forth religion. A careful consideration of the relation between the two soon leads to the conclusion that neither one of these alternatives is acceptable. They are both effects of the same cause, namely,
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