“A theologian is a person who makes bold to speak about God because he speaks out of God and through God. To profess theology is to do holy work. It is a priestly ministration in the house of the Lord. It is itself a service of worship, a consecration of mind and heart to the honour of His name.” MindHeartPersonsHouseNamesSpeakLordHolyWorshipTheologyWorking ItHonourHeart And MindTheologianSpeaks OutConsecration Author:Herman Bavinck
“Whoever isolates himself from the church, i.e., from Christianity as a whole, from the history of dogma in its entirety, loses the truth of the Christian faith. That person becomes a branch that is torn from the tree and shrivels, an organ that is separated from the body and therefore doomed to die. Only within the communion of the saints can the length and the breadth, the depth and the height, of the love of Christ be comprehended.” PersonsWholeBodyChristianDiesChristLosesChurchChristianityTreeDepthSaintHeightBranchesLengthOrgansDogmaDoomedCommunionTornChristian FaithBreadthEntirety Book:Reformed Dogmatics : Volume 1: Prolegomena Source: Reformed Dogmatics : Volume 1: Prolegomena