IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH
By Derek Bigg
Dewcroft Publications, 41 Barnmead, Haywards Heath RH16 1UY (01444 454887 or email derekbigg@dewcroft.freeserve.co.uk). 270 pages. £5.00
ISBN 1 873166 34 6
For some decades now, Reformed evangelical churches in the UK have been moving in the direction of what is called 'biblical' theology. It is accepted that the name is not satisfactory; it implies that other forms of theology aren't biblical.
The distinction made between systematic and biblical theology is that whereas the former seeks to present 'a thematic arrangement of biblical truth in the form of basic Christian doctrine', the latter 'traces the historical development of God's purposes from Genesis to Revelation' (p.7). Theology is something that we understand as God reveals it, rather than as humans arrange it.
