WHAT THEN IS THEOLOGY? Throughout the life-time of the Body of Christ, Christians have typically identified theology, a theoretical enterprise, with the everyday non-theoretical language of the Bible. Enthralled with the idea that as the Logos of the Greek philosophers provided an intelligent… principle of the universe, so too, the first verse of the Gospel of John similarly provides Christians with a rational entree to the mind of God and his creation. With such a view the Bible easily becomes a textbook regarding the real nature of everything. Hence it is assumed in many orthodox circles that it is the task of theology to provide the systematic organization of the logical propositions of the Bible.

Ouweneel asks, Is theology really the same as Bible study , or the study of Christian doctrine ? Is theology science ? And if so, what does this involve? How can you distinguish between scientific and non-scientific - or even unscientific - theology? If the Apostles Peter, John, and Paul were indeed theologians , were they scientific, non-scientific, or unscientific theologians? Does it matter whether theology is scientific or not?

All these questions and many more evoked by these questions are investigated in this challenging and ground-breaking work by the Dutch theologian Willem J. Ouweneel.