{"id":749,"date":"2009-02-19T07:43:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T14:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=749"},"modified":"2009-02-19T07:43:20","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T14:43:20","slug":"wilken-on-historical-theology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2009\/02\/19\/wilken-on-historical-theology\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilken on Historical Theology"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';\">\u201cThe path to theological maturity leads necessarily through the study of the Christian past, and this requires a kind of spiritual and intellectual apprenticeship.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Before we become masters we must become disciples.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>From the great thinkers of Christian history, we learn how to use the language of faith, to understand the inner logic of theological ideas, to discern the relation between seemingly disparate concepts, to discover what is central and what peripheral, and to love God above all things.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Before we learn to speak on our own we must allow others to form our words and guide our thoughts.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Historical theology is an exercise in humility, for we discover that theology is as much a matter of receiving as it is of constructing, that it has to do with the heart as well as with the intellect, with character as well as with doctrines, with love as well as with understanding.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';\">&#8212; Robert Louis Wilken<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe path to theological maturity leads necessarily through the study of the Christian past, and this requires a kind of spiritual and intellectual apprenticeship.\u00a0 Before we become masters we must become disciples.\u00a0 From the great thinkers of Christian history, we learn how to use the language of faith, to understand the inner logic of theological [&hellip;]<\/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":[19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-theology","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-c5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","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=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}