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Chapter 1: Entering the Conversation, Chapter 2: To Know and Enjoy God,…
Chapter 1: Entering the Conversation
Favorite Quote 2: Theological reflection is a way of examining our praise, prayers, words, and worship with the goal of making sure they conform to God alone.
In order to become good theologians, Kapic encourages Christians in this chapter to reflect on one's questions and beliefs to gain an understanding of Christianity and a relationship with God.
Favorite Quote 1: "[Theology] is an aspect of thought and conversation for all who live and breathe, who wrestle and fear, who hope and pray.
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Chapter 2: To Know and Enjoy God
Favorite Quote 2: When one begins to know God in his beauty and truth, worship springs into being.
In order to become good theologians, Kapic encourages Christians in this chapter to come to know God through worship, praise, prayer, by coming to God with questions, fears, hopes, etc. We must come close to God to know him.
Favorite Quote 1: Theology is all about knowing how to sing the song of redemption: to know when to shout, when to mourn, when to be silent, and when to hope. But in order to enjoy the song and sing it well, we must learn the words and the music.
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Chapter 3: Theology as Pilgrimage
Favorite Quote 1: Our understanding is inescapably incomplete.
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In order to become good theologians, Kapic encourages Christians in this chapter to accept the call to hear Christ's word and respond in faith and love.
Favorite Quote 2: God's knowledge of himself is pure and full, while our knowledge of him is derivative and incomplete.
Chapter 4: The Inseparability of Life and Theology
Favorite Quote 2: Bad theology often grows out of dying religious feelings.
Favorite Quote 1: Theological Reflection is a deeply personal venture; it does not leave room for cool scientific detachment.
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In order to become good theologians, Kapic encourages Christians in this chapter to cultivate appropriate and healthy theological activities.
Chapter 5: Faithful Reason
In order to become good theologians, Kapic encourages Christians in this chapter to come to God, who gives us our place, and who gives us ultimate peace, greater than understanding.
Favorite Quote 2: Some kind of faith commitment - a trust we place in something - is essential to all thinking.
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Favorite Quote 1: In its own way, theology is a science, whose...principles...are articles of faith, and faith itself is an assent to the word of God accepted as the word of God.
Chapter 6: Prayer and Study
Favorite Quote 1: One of the great dangers in theology is making our faith something we discuss rather than something that moves us.
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In order to become good theologians, Kapic encourages Christians in this chapter to acknowledge the relationship between learning and devotion, how one relies on the other. "Faithful theology requires prayerful study."
Favorite Quote 2: There is a potential for confusion between factual knowledge and personal experience...this gap can be deadly.
Chapter 7: Humility and Repentance
In order to become good theologians, Kapic encourages Christians in this chapter to remain dependent on grace in order to live a life of humility and repentance.
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Favorite Quote 2: The path of pride burdens us with defensiveness, while the way of humility frees us to receive teaching and correction.
Favorite Quote 1: God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
Chapter 8: Suffering, Justice, and Knowing God
In order to become good theologians, Kapic encourages Christians in this chapter to understand that they are freed from the stranglehold of sin, so to show compassion for and love to those who suffer is to show them the face of God, and will therefore bring them to God.
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Favorite Quote 2: We respond to Jesus' call to purity not by ignoring or retreating from the sin and suffering of this world but only by confronting the sin, loving those who suffer, and watching God's grace bring healing and hope amid the grief, loneliness, and pain.
Favorite Quote 1: [Worship] must celebrate not only God's might but also his mercy in the midst of human sin and misery.
Chapter 9: Tradition and Community
In order to become good theologians, Kapic encourages Christians in this chapter to be mindful of our human limits, and understand that nothing stands above Scripture.
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Favorite Quote 1: Theology grows best in community
Favorite Quote 2: Our churchly confession is a living and dynamic response to God's Word; we must always be humble and revise our claims when we find we have misunderstood or misapplied biblical truth.
Chapter 10: Love of Scripture
Favorite Quote 1: Biblicism [treats Scripture] almost as a collection of proverbs that you can pull out and plug in anywhere without question.
In order to become good theologians, Kapic encourages Christians in this chapter to understand the context in which God's words were given, because God chose to reveal them. Scripture is sacred and cannot be treated frivolously.
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Favorite Quote 2: To know God, we are called to know his Word.