“I don’t know about that, but I know what I believe”  isn’t a direct quote from any one person, but it pretty much approximates the attitude, the opinion, of many people who may have never even seen the inside of a church, opened a Bible, or said an actual prayer in quite some while. This is a problem!  As G. K. Chesterton put it, when people stop believing in God, they don’t end by believing in nothing— they believe in anything."

In a nation in which the vast majority of us say we do believe in God, there are almost 30,000 separate denominations of Christian churches. In addition to that, our country  boasts a seemingless endless array of New Age “belief systems" -- Wiccan, Native American, Eastern, and God save us, Atheist “religions”, each of them claiming to be the "one true religion" of humankind.   Where does one go, then, to acquire the skill necessary to navigate this dense thicket of theological claims made in the name of religious Truth?

Christians have traditionally been called “the people of the Book”.  But, there is more to it than that.  Christians are also people of the Creed -- a kind of Constitution if you will, setting out what a Christian’s faith consists in. People have given their lives rather than repudiate this Christian Creed.  Theology, the Mother of Sciences, is the study of God and mankind’s relation to Him, growing out of the Creed’s claims and the Bible’s revelation. Whether it is moral theology, Christology, Ecclesiology or any of the several other branches of theology, a basic knowledge of the state of the art, so to speak, is deemed essential for adult formation in faith. Theological studies are not purely the province of priests, preachers and ministers of one kind or another. From the right understanding of the Big Bang and other cosmological theories, to the very latest philosophical, psychological and scientific theories about men, women, the family, marriage and economics -- the problems we all face -- theology speaks about everyday matters, enablng us to look at them from God’s own point of view, and placing us, ourselves, into our proper place within the proper order of things. The theology of the Trinity, the very nature of God, the Person of Christ, the action of the Holy Spirit, are all properly the realm of theological study and learning. And all of these approached to the learning of Truth are of critical interest for the forming of a mature faith.

Here at the Christian Book Corner we are well aware of the need for a life-long study of our Christian faith, not merely a memorization of Scripture texts, or formulas of prayer, but an always broader and deeper development of intellectual as well as spiritual relationship with our Creator/Savior. Through carefully scholarly writings, stories, histories, journals, novels, poems, films and other media we strive to provide the very best resources to allow one to grow in their knowledge and love of the God who knows and loves them; to begin devotedly building the one and only relationship which endure and more than satisfy the soul for all eternity.