Transcription of Chapter 11 - Systematic Theology Williams Final A
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11. Systematic Theology AS A BIBLICAL DISCIPLINE. MICHAEL Williams . Professor of Systematic Theology _____. INTRODUCTION. In Between Two Horizons: Spanning New Testament Studies and Systematic Theology , a group of biblical theologians and Systematic theologians came together to discuss and write on the relationship between Scripture, hermeneutics, and Systematic Theology . The contributors to the project . perhaps somewhat to their own dismay, but not surprisingly at all quickly located the disciplinary Moloch that seems to haunt all discussions of the relationship between biblical Theology and systematics: what are we to make of Systematic Theology ? The participants could reach no consensus on the question. Our disagreement on this score, write the editors, had to do with ongoing controversies among systematicians regarding definitions of their task as theologians and with some of our own caricatures of Theology ' as attempts merely to organize the core, historic doctrines of Christian faith.
SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY AS A BIBLICAL DISCIPLINE 199 properly bound by the Reformation principle of sola scriptura , and thus should be regulated by the scriptural message and by …
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