Something I wrote awhile back which seems to refelct on current controversies about the nature/task of theology:

One of the astounding oddities of the beginning of the English translation of Bavinck’s first volume of Reformed Dogmatics (pp. 34, 35) is that he lists William Ames as a bad guy for defining theology as “the art of living to God.” He also mentions as a danger a man name Calovius who argued that claiming God is the object of theology is as wrong as making “a prince instead of the commonwealth the object of the study of politics.” To me, that sounds quite compelling. But for Bavinck it only leads to Kant: “Thus, step by step, the subjective practical notion of theology began increasingly to find acceptance.”