Learning as a group enables us to leverage on each other's insights and perspectives. It is also more fun and allow us to bounce off ideas. This is in keeping with one of Agora goals next year - "Learning as a Community" to equip ourselves with some basic, foundational lessons in theology. As a group, we found Wayne Grudem's accessible volume on Systematic Theology to be an excellent starting point. He was careful to explain the jargons in layman terms and provides a needed emphasis on worship and Christian living that we look for.
Theology is for doxology, not just analysed but sung! And lived out... If not, there wud be something wrong with the author or the readers! We'd be starting our discussion on "What is systematic theology? Why study it? And how?" Normally a conducive study group should not be too large so we are limiting the number of participants. But dun worry, there's always the 2006 'workshops' starting in February...
Date: January 22, 2006 (Sunday)
Time: 1.40 pm
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Noe any library where I can get it?
Come 'yam char' with us, can find ways wan!
I might be able to drop by at CDPC in a few weeks time- I'll let you know when I can come, and then we can "yam char" hehe...
Can ask your friend to reserve ah? =)
And I see you've got a pic of yourself in your profile. Not bad :)
Most people who have seen the blog before meeting me in person think that I have a beard or at least, goatee... and wear 3-inch thick glasses... so hope to set the expectations a bit hahaha...
Grace didn't like that photo though. Er, think the Hobbes picture looks more intellectual hehheheheh....
"Theology is a peculiarly beautiful discipline. Indeed, we can confidently say that it is the most beautiful of all disciplines. To find academic study distasteful is the mark of the Philistine. It is an extreme form of Philistinism to find, or to be able to find, theology distasteful. The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this field."
-- Karl Barth