Today we did not cover as much ground as yesterday.
Class was interrupted by the Spurgeon Fellowship Lectures.
Dr. Todd Miles (a theology professor at Western Seminary) lectured on how emergent and emerging churches (yes, I know, just go with it) are making the social justice message more prevalent than the gospel message. Miles presented a paper called, "A Kingdom Without a King: Evaluating the Kingdom Ethic(s) of the Emerging Church" at the 2007 ETS National Conference, from which his lecture was taken.
Also, D.A. Carson lectured on "A Pastoral Theology of Suffering and Evil." In short it had to do with developing a preemptive theology for the inevitable times when we suffer and are struck by evil (both moral and natural). It was a good reminder about death and the cross. Not P.C. but valuable.
However, in class we did begin to discuss what impact systematic theology has on preaching.
Carson compared biblical theology to systematic stating systematic theology is ordered logically, topically and a-temporally.
We only scratched the surface on this, with more to come tomorrow.
1 comment:
I like how they talk about the Emerging Church as if it is one cohesive group.
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