“18. The foremost fruit and goal of Theology is knowledge of the truth that accords with godliness (Titus 1:1). By this description supernatural truth is distinguished from natural truth; the latter does not suffice in a man who is not yet reborn, and it does not have the power to infuse his heart with godliness and true service to God, as is evidenced by many proofs in Romans 1 and 2.
19. This truth is the form that pervades Theology in its entirety as well as its individual parts, and therefore the theologian always contemplates it in one and the same way throughout the sacred letters.
20. The second use and goal of Theology is that it renders us wise unto salvation and to every good gift in this present life and the life that is to come (2 Tim 3:15, 1 Tim 4:8).
21. The glory of God is the highest goal of Theology whereby He has prepared this glory only for Himself, because He is all-sufficient unto Himself and is in want of nothing, and because not a thing can be added to Him by our doing.”
—Synopsis of a Purer Theology, Volume 1: Disputations 1-31, Eds. William Den Boer and Riemer A. Faber (Landrum, SC: Davanant Press, 2023), 1: 5-6.
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