title: Who Needs Theology?: An Invitation to the Study of God
author:  Stanley J. Grenz 
description: Easily acceptable to the lay-people within the church, while at the same time retaining enough critical thought and depth that seminary students and pastors would still appreciate the work that has gone into this book. (Nathan W. Bingham, Calvinist (cal.vini.st), May 4, 2009)
zlib_text: Who Needs Theology? is a cri de coeur from two of North America’s
  leading theological writers. Wide-ranging, impassioned and eminently
  readable, this book should be required reading for every student entering
  theological study at whatever level.
  But it is also a book to put into the hands of every responsible pastor or
  layperson who seriously aspires to embrace the biblical mandate to “love
  the Lord our God with all of our mind.”
  In its own terms this is a prophetic writing whose holistic vision of heart,
  mind and will united in the service of God points a way back for evangelical
  Christianity from the cultural margins toward the high ground of cultural
  leadership and renewal.
  BRUCE MILNE
  Senior Minister
  First Baptist Church, Vancouver
  Grenz and Olson gently and persuasively disarm the suspicions that many
  sincere believers bring to the study of theology. They show that theology,
  rightly practiced, is indispensable to Christian living. At the same time they
  equip believers to begin the