In the introductory description of a new series of Studies in Reformed Dogmatics comes this superb description of what Dogmatics is for, and why it is an important discipline within the ongoing life of the Christian Church.
"The source of dogmatics is Holy Scripture, its scope is the summing up of all things in Jesus Christ, its setting is the communion of the saints, and its end is the conversion, consolation, and instruction of creaturely wayfarers in the knowledge and love of the triune God until that knowledge and love is consummated in the beatific vision."
I could happily write an entire post on this description, but I'm content to allow this rich, rhythmic sentence to make its own way into our minds and hearts. Loving God with the mind and the understanding is far too often dismissed, as if somehow the God who gave us minds might disapprove of the use of these same minds in the pursuit of God, truth and the wisdom to live an obedient, grateful and graced life.
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