What are the particular emphases here at Veritas?

1. We are ‘Presuppositional’: The Word of God is to be the bedrock of the Christian’s thinking. The Bible is absolutely unique in that it is not the word of man but the Word of man’s Creator. Hence we stress the divinity of Scripture over its humanity. It is this quality which gives to the Bible its unimpeachable authority.

2. We teach theology as a ‘Worldview’: The exposition of the Word of God is always an exposition of Reality. The Bible should be the source of our thinking as only it can show us how to “think God’s thoughts after Him.” Systematic Theology should be taught, therefore, not as a subject but as God’s witness to His Person and His works.

3. We are moderately ‘Calvinistic’: The Triune God is absolute sovereign of what He has made. God is never wondering what man will do or waiting to see what man will do before deciding what He will do. Although man has a free will and is responsible for his decisions, God has included these within His all-encompassing Plan – a Plan which He is working out to its glorious consummation.

4. We are ‘Dispensational’: Interpretation of the Word should come from what God has told us He has done and will do. This information is given principally to man in outline in the Biblical Covenants, which, if they are to mean anything, must mean what they say. This produces a dispensational theology, though, we believe, “Covenant Dispensational” or “Biblical Covenantalist” would be more accurate.

5. We believe theology must be ‘Textual’: Our theology must, in the first place, be derived as much as possible from the plain sense of the text of Scripture and not from our own deductions and inferences. Since all our systems are fallible approximations which overlap God’s system of truth, it is wise not to formulate doctrines directly from other doctrines, but to allow the Bible to say what it has to say and only then to attempt to bring the various doctrines together into a system or comprehensive world and life view.