Founder of Dallas Theological Seminary, Louis Sperry Chafer, wrote in 1947, “Systematic Theology, the greatest of the sciences, has fallen upon evil days. Between the rejection and ridicule of it by the so-called progressives and the neglect and abridgment of it by the orthodox, it, as a potent influence, is approaching the point of extinction.”Things are no better today in the ever-thickening and life-choking atmosphere of post-modernism, where truth is in the eye of the beholder and many pastors are more concerned with being relevant to the culture than teaching God’s people doctrine. We hope this article, “Theology: The Queen of the Sciences,” will encourage all of us in the importance of Theology by considering four emphases: the science, supremacy, standard, and system of Theology.
