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TH111 Doctrine of God and Creation: A Reformed Perspective is unavailable, but you can change that!

What is the relationship between Holy Scripture and Christian tradition, and how do you use both to live in the world as Christ’s disciple? These are some of the questions Dr. Michael Allen explores in TH111. Using John Calvin’s image of theology as spectacles, Dr. Allen shows how Scripture and theological tradition work together to shape how we see, interact with, and serve the world in our own...

Theologians have often spoken of how God alone has perfect theology [or] what’s called “archetypal theology” by post-Reformation scholastic theologians. Humans at best can have what’s called “ectypal knowledge” or “ectypal theology”—that is, the type of knowledge of God or of theology that comes from ek (the Greek preposition), [meaning it] comes from God. It’s always dependent. It’s always derivative. It’s always secondary. It’s never as good or as full as God’s own knowledge of Himself. But it’s