X Thinking Theologically

“Religious commitment is a motivation, not a substitute, for careful thinking.” So writes Fritz Guy in Thinking Theologically: Adventist Christianity and the Interpretation of Faith , a work synthesizing a long career of careful “theological think.”

An influential thought leader among Seventh-day Adventists, Guy offers his long-awaited perspective on how North American Adventists ought to go about the business of “doing theology.” The book is addressed to theological students, pastors, and serious general readers who are interested in what theological thinking is, why it is important, who needs to be doing it, and how it should be done. “So our theological thinking is inevitably different from that of the Apostle Paul or Martin Luther or James White, and this difference is no cause for regret or embarrassment.

For if our theology is to address our own world effectively; and communicate the message of scripture persuasively, it must be a theology that has this world as one of its ingredients; it must take seriously the particular experience, insights, questions, concerns, and needs of this world.

Otherwise the world will not take seriously either our faith or our theology.”