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title: 'Warfield on the Importance of Systematic Theology'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-06-08
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-warfield-on-the-importance-of-systematic-theology
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# Warfield on the Importance of Systematic Theology

“The character of our religion is, in a word, determined by the character of our theology: and thus the task of the systematic theologian is to see that the relations in which the separate truths actually stand are rightly conceived, in order that they may exert their rightful influence on the development of the religious life. As no truth is so insignificant as to have no place in the development of our religious life, so no truth is so unimportant that we dare neglect it or deal deceitfully with it in adjusting it into our system.” — [**B**.**B. Warfield**](/authors/b-b-warfield), *The Idea of Systematic Theology Considered as a Science: Inaugural Address at Princeton Theological Seminary* (1888)