This eighth video (of 14 total) created for a recent Systematic Theology I course moves us from theology proper to the doctrine of Scripture or, more broadly, of revelation. I think it’s probably more typical to address the revelation before God (often as part of a “prolegomena“), but the textbook that we worked with for this course chose to do things a bit differently.
There’s always a tension, I think, about where you begin in a theological system: with the God who gave Scripture or the Scripture that tells you about God. Wherever you begin, the desirable thing would be to describe a God who intentionally makes himself clearly known in meaningful ways that also correspond to the way things actually are. The Great Tradition of Christian theology has said that the Bible is that sort of divine revelation on account of God’s work of inspiring (or, maybe better, his out-breathing). That’s the basic path that I try to follow here.
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