ROUGHLY EDITED COPY CUENet AUDIO TRANSCRIPTION DOGMATICS 2 LESSON 2 Captioning Provided By: Caption First, Inc. 10 E. 22nd Street Suite 304 Lombard, IL 60148 800-825-5234 *** This text is being provided in a rough draft format. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is provided in order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings. *** >> Dr. Scaer, my name is Eric. Like Nick, I'm also very pleased to begin this course. We've had several dogmatics classes now and so I know that courses in systematic theology address specific topics or doctrines. We've been studying so many important doctrines that at times it is difficult to determine whether certain teachings are for lack of a better phrase more important for us and our parishioners to fully comprehend. So let me ask you: Among various Christian doctrines, where do you rank Christology in importance? >> DR. DAVID SCAER: That's a very good question, Eric. And I'm not so sure that there will be complete agreement on what the answer will be. But the most important course, not only in the systematics, the area which we're studying now, but also in your entire theological program will be the cross in Christology. The reason for this is that every Sunday, if that is when you complete your program, you will be preaching to your congregation. And for whatever other purpose, your sermon might have the -- really the final and ultimate purpose of all preaching is preaching about Jesus Christ. And it will be in this particular course that you will become acquainted with who he is and what he has done for us. *** This text is being provided in a rough draft format. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is provided in order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings. ***