A Good Place to Start Theological Study

It's important where you begin your theological study. Your heart needs to be right if you are going to profit from theology. Since we are all fallible and all have our predjucies, James Boyce gives 6 ways we need to approach theological study.

1. With reverence for truth, and especially for the truth taught in the Word of God.
2. With earnest prayer for Divine help.
3. With careful searching of heart against prejudice.
4. With timidity, as to the reception and propagation of new doctrine.
5. But with a spirit willing and anxious to examine, and to accept whatever we may be convinced is true.
6. With teachable humility, which, knowing that God has not taught us in his word all the truth that exists, not even all the truth on many a single point, accepts with implicit faith all that he has taught, and awaits his own time for that more full revelation which shall remove all our present perplexities.

Abstract of Systematic Theology – James P. Boyce