Knowing a holy God

A sermon on Psalm 15 In the middle of 1972, when I was four years old, a man on the other side of the world completed a book that would eventually sell over a million copies and be translated into more than a dozen languages. The author was theologian J. I. Packer, and the book …

The purpose of theology (part 1)

Welcome to The Theology Whisperer, a series of short blog posts on theology and theological education. What is the purpose of theology? In this and my next two posts (part 2 and part 3), Iโ€™ll outline my response to this question from an evangelical Christian perspective. Some definitions of the term โ€œtheologyโ€ give us insight …

What is theological education?

Welcome to The Theology Whisperer,ย  a series of short blog posts on theology and theological education. Your contributions are important โ€“ please join the conversation! My formal theological education began in 1991, when I opened some mail and began reading a booklet that I had requested from Moore Theological College on the study of the …