“The effects of theological knowledge should be humility and a deepened desire to serve and honor God in all of our commerce with created reality.
The truly profound thinkers in life are often brought to humility, too, but perhaps for different reasons.
They are humbled out of a sense of their own smallness; theology should humble us through a sense of the greatness and wonder of God.
It is what we know, not what we do not know, that subdues our pride and causes us to render to God the worship that is His due.”
–David F. Wells, “The Theologian’s Craft” in Doing Theology in Today’s World: Essays in Honor of Kenneth S. Kantzer, John Woodbridge and Thomas Edward McComiskey, Eds. (Grand Rapids: MI: Zondervan, 1994), 174.
