{"id":392,"date":"2010-04-22T14:59:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T19:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/?p=392"},"modified":"2010-04-22T14:59:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T19:59:01","slug":"theology-and-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/2010\/04\/22\/theology-and-gospel\/","title":{"rendered":"Theology and Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wise words from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/publications\/35-1\/minority-report-the-importance-of-not-studying-theology\">Carl Trueman&#8217;s essay<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/publications\/35-1\">this month&#8217;s <em>Themelios<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">We have a tendency to make the chronological  end points\u2014 what new things we learn each day\u2014the most important. Yet  this confuses the process of learning with the real order of things.  <strong>The study of theology is not a chase after something or a movement  beyond where we start our Christian lives; it is rather a reflection  upon the foundations of where we already are. The end term is,  strange to tell, the beginning. I start by confessing with my mouth that  Jesus is Lord and believing in my heart that God raised him from the  dead, and I never actually go any further.<\/strong> All my theology, all my  study, is simply reflection on what lies behind that. Thus, I never move  beyond praise, never leave behind the beauty of adoration of the living  God; I simply learn more and more about the deep foundations upon which  that praise and worship rest, which all believers share from the most  brilliant to the most humble. . . . [The study of theology] does not  move us beyond our starting point; it merely helps us to understand that  starting point better. (emphasis added)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wise words from Carl Trueman&#8217;s essay in this month&#8217;s Themelios: We have a tendency to make the chronological end points\u2014 what new things we learn each day\u2014the most important. Yet&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[260,361,509,1513,1569,1706],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-carl-trueman","tag-cross","tag-faith","tag-study-of-theology","tag-themelios","tag-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}