{"id":2027,"date":"2011-05-04T12:57:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T19:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2011-05-04T12:57:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T19:57:18","slug":"why-study-systematic-theology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2011\/05\/04\/why-study-systematic-theology\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Study Systematic Theology?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/NottmUniversity#p\/c\/52C4CE0B7593CFC8\/1\/PoIjFi5jgTw\">video from the University of Nottingham<\/a>, featuring Karen Kilby.\u00a0 Putting aside that these folks <em>look <\/em>like systematic theologians, I love Kilby&#8217;s description of what systematic theology is and why we study it:\u00a0 &#8220;a theologian is one who prays and stumbles in their prayer, and starts to think about their stumbling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"height: 390px; width: 640px\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PoIjFi5jgTw?version=3\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video from the University of Nottingham, featuring Karen Kilby.\u00a0 Putting aside that these folks look like systematic theologians, I love Kilby&#8217;s description of what systematic theology is and why we study it:\u00a0 &#8220;a theologian is one who prays and stumbles in their prayer, and starts to think about their stumbling.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-wH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}