The Idea of Systematic Theology
The orthodox view of Christianity finds its most consistent expression in the Reformed Faith. Fundamental to everything orthodox is the presupposition of the antecedent self-existence of God and of his infallible revelation of himself to man in the Bible. Systematic theology seeks to offer an ordered presentation of what the Bible teaches about God.
Cornelius Van Til, An Introduction to Systematic Theology (The Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company: Phillipsburg, NJ, 1979), 1.
The Scriptures are also full of information about our salvation and about many other things that concern us. But it will not do to say on this account that man is the center of theology. All that the Scriptures say about man, and particularly all that they say about man’s salvation, is after all for the glory of God. Our theology should be God centered because our life should be God centered.
Ibid., p. 1.