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Originally posted by TimeRedeemer
... So take doctrine that has yet to mature completely such as eschatology. You can clearly see the difference in the two disciplines of biblical and systematic theology by seeing. ...
I don't really know off-hand what is meant by biblical theology vs. systematic theology - except by the answers given that biblical theology is purposely un-systematized. And I guess this means that the biblical theology doctrines are developed independent of other doctrines. Is that correct?
My question (really a side question) is wondering about how doctrines "mature". I've heard people talk about advances in doctrine, or developments - but given that the Word of God is fixed, can we be certain that any change regarding our understanding of the Word is an improvement or advance. Can we really understand God's revelation better today than they did in the early church? What do we know better? Have we advanced? The main benefit I get from reading modern theologians is in helping me understand ancient theologians.
"Biblical theology exhibits to the student of the Word the organic structure of the truth therein contained, and its organic growth as the result of revelation. It shows to him that in the Bible there is an organization finer, more complicated, more exquisite than even the texture of muscles and nerves and brain in the human body; that its various parts are interwoven and correlated in the most subtle manner, each sensitive to the impressions received from all the others, perfect in itself, and yet dependent upon the rest, while in them and through them all throbs as a unifying principle the Spirit of God's living truth."