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Who Needs Theology? An Invitation to the Study of God is unavailable, but you can change that!

To many Christians theology is something alien, overly intellectual and wholly unappealing. Even seminary students are known to balk at the prospect of a course on theology. Yet theology—most simply, the knowledge of God—is essential to the life and health of the church. In this short introduction, Stanley Grenz and Roger Olson, two theologians who care deeply about the witness of ordinary...

new significance and receive possible answers where otherwise they seem only to lead into dead ends. Worldviewish theology is common to every thinking person, for wondering about life’s ultimate questions constitutes part of our human existence. That in itself may be a significant pointer toward Someone beyond ourselves. But what about Christian theology? Doesn’t that go beyond theology in the vague, all-inclusive sense described above? Indeed it does. What might be a proper basic
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