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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...

□ Jesus and the salvation he brought (Christology) □ the Holy Spirit and the Spirit’s work in us and in the world (pneumatology) □ the church as the fellowship of Christ’s disciples (ecclesiology) □ the consummation or completion of God’s program for creation (eschatology) Good theology begins by exploring these topics as they are informed by faith in Jesus, who is the revelation of God. A central goal of theology is to understand and describe what we believe as Christians, what we
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