BBAS 64
22nd January 2007, 02:26 PM
Good Day,
I started in to Boyce's Abstract of Sys. Theology a few nights ago.
Right from the get go I seen a concept which I was unfamilair:
CHAPTER I
THE SCIENCE OF THEOLOGY.
THE word Theology means literally a discourse concerning God but in analogy with other words, as geology, chronology and biology, it means the science which treats of God
It naturally concerns itself with such questions as these: Is there a God; can he be known; what is his nature, and character; what are the relations he sustains to the universe, particularly to intelligent beings possessed of spiritual natures, and above all, as most important to us, to men; in what ways has he made himself known; and especially in what aspect does he reveal himself to them as sinner. This is Theology proper.
In connection with this last relation it treats, particularly, of man as a creature of God placed under the government of his moral law. It inquires into his original condition of innocence, and happiness; the manner in which he fell there from; and his present state of sinfulness, and condemnation and inability for self-rescue. This is Anthropology. It is thus led, also, to discuss the nature of the salvation which God has provided as seen in the person and character of Jesus Christ, through whom it has come, and in the works of active and passive obedience, by which he has wrought out reconciliation to God. This is Soteriology.
http://www.founders.org/library/boyce1/ch1.html
Active / passive obedience, certianly two categories of which I am not famliar.
Can any one explain this??
In Him,
Bill
I started in to Boyce's Abstract of Sys. Theology a few nights ago.
Right from the get go I seen a concept which I was unfamilair:
CHAPTER I
THE SCIENCE OF THEOLOGY.
THE word Theology means literally a discourse concerning God but in analogy with other words, as geology, chronology and biology, it means the science which treats of God
It naturally concerns itself with such questions as these: Is there a God; can he be known; what is his nature, and character; what are the relations he sustains to the universe, particularly to intelligent beings possessed of spiritual natures, and above all, as most important to us, to men; in what ways has he made himself known; and especially in what aspect does he reveal himself to them as sinner. This is Theology proper.
In connection with this last relation it treats, particularly, of man as a creature of God placed under the government of his moral law. It inquires into his original condition of innocence, and happiness; the manner in which he fell there from; and his present state of sinfulness, and condemnation and inability for self-rescue. This is Anthropology. It is thus led, also, to discuss the nature of the salvation which God has provided as seen in the person and character of Jesus Christ, through whom it has come, and in the works of active and passive obedience, by which he has wrought out reconciliation to God. This is Soteriology.
http://www.founders.org/library/boyce1/ch1.html
Active / passive obedience, certianly two categories of which I am not famliar.
Can any one explain this??
In Him,
Bill