Living Theology – Hub Post

by Stephen Rodgers

Garret already did a fantastic job in his treatment of the series, so I have little of substance to add to it.  However, considering that the series took more than a year to complete (he began in November 2009), I thought it might be helpful to create a hub post collecting all the articles.  After all, numerous people have joined our church since then, and they might be unfamiliar with the series (or Garrett for that matter!).  And that doesn’t even begin to include the people who read this online without having visited LBC.  I’m not sure many of them understand what a massive undertaking it was that you set forth to accomplish; perhaps this post will help them see that.

I also wanted to take a brief moment to publicly thank Garrett for all the hard work he did on the series.  He joined the Beacon as a writer at the same time that I joined as the editor, and his faithfulness in producing article after article, week after week, was an enormous benefit and comfort to me personally.  And he consistently did so in a manner that showed he had spent considerable time in reflection not only of Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology, but of Scripture itself.  The icing on the cake was that in the entire time he spent as a writer, he only ever asked for time off once: and that was due to the fact that he was relocating to San Jose to be part of the church plant! I think he crammed relocation, a career change, and possibly his engagement into that time period, and he still came back with more articles two weeks later!

Garrett, it has been an absolute pleasure.  You are a good writer (meaning I almost never changed your words), a discerning thinker (meaning I almost never deleted your words), and a faithful Christian brother (meaning I never failed to learn from your words).

Thank you.

Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology TOC (with corresponding links to Garrett Glende’s Living Theology series)

Part 1: The Doctrine of the Word of God

Part 2: The Doctrine of God

Part 3: The Doctrine of Man

Part 4: The Doctrines of Christ and the Holy Spirit

Part 5: The Doctrine of the Application of Redemption

Part 6: The Doctrine of the Church

Part 7: The Doctrine of the Future