# “Theology should humble us” by David Wells

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- Published: 2021-07-22T12:00:42-05:00
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“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](https://amzn.to/3kpYuYQ)” in [_Doing Theology in Today’s World: Essays in Honor of Kenneth S. Kantzer_](https://amzn.to/3kpYuYQ),
John Woodbridge and Thomas Edward McComiskey, Eds. (Grand Rapids: MI: Zondervan,
1994), 174.

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