The Goal of Doing Theology

Here's an excerpt from The Goal of Doing Theology, Sinclair Ferguson’s contribution to the February issue of Tabletalk:

We all know that the scholastic theologians of the Middle Ages had a great interest in angels. How many of them can dance on the head of a pin? they asked. Modern Christians regard the question as trivial and ridiculous, and certainly, thus stated, it may seem so. But perhaps a medieval theologian would be forgiven for asking, “Why, then, do you moderns have to push past so many angel and cherub trinkets and cards in the local Christian store in order to find a book about the eternal God?”

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