The Doctrine of God

All theology should be aimed at teaching us how to live out our Christian faith in the world today (i.e. should have edification and mission foci). Therefore this course not only looks at God from a systematic theological perspective but also how to best reveal and proclaim him in the second decade of the twenty-first century. By the end of this course you should be able to:

• Formulate a plausible and persuasive case for the existence of God.
• Articulate and defend an evangelical view of how God can be known.
• Conduct inductive biblical studies on the attributes of God using the knowledge of God cycle.
• Discuss the benefits and limitations of the manner in which systematic theologians identify and categorise the attributes of God.
• Defend the biblical portrait of God as being the standard by which all other views of God are to be evaluated.
• Understand why a biblical portrait of God is important for personal and corporate relationship with God, worship, holy living, evangelism and mission.