Round the Sphere Again

Christian Carnival:

• This week's Christian Carnival is at Adam's Blog.

Church History:

• Historia ecclesiastica gives us three reasons why studying the church fathers is a good thing. And if that's convinced you, you'll also find some help deciding where to start your study.

Theology:

• Kim of Hireath gives us reasons to value Systematic Theologies.
  
  
• James Spurgeon of Pyromaniacs remind us that there are things we can know about God:

  It is not up to us to re-define, in each generation, who God is. Christian people have known who God is for thousands of years. The things God revealed to them through the Scriptures, belonged to them, and they belong to us.

  
  
• Centuri0n has a couple of highly recommended posts on the theology of marriage: It's Not up to You 1 and It's Not up to You 2. You didn't know there was theology of marriage? Theology is the foundation for everything, and if you mess up the foundational theology, you probably won't get the practical part right either.
  
  
• Evan May of Triablogue answers some questions posed to him about Biblical unity when there are theological disagreements.
  
  
• John Piper answers one of the questions raised by the idea that our illnesses (like cancer, for instance) are part of God's will for us: If God Wills Disease Why Should We Try to Eradicate It? (HT: Smart Christian.)

Praise:

• I put this blog in the category of cool things I wish I'd thought of: Alphabet of Praise by the lovely Island Sparrow.

Tags: carnivals, Christian Carnival, church history, church fathers, theology, systematic theology, theology proper, God, marriage, unity, theological disagreements, John Piper, God's sovereignty, praise