The study of the sacred page is, as it were, the soul of sacred theology. (blog.feedspot.com)
And yet the gradual separation of the social doctrine from the overall system of Thomas began to create the impression that the philosophy of practical reason was freestanding: a kind of first philosophy in its own right, connected to the metaphysical system and even sacred theology only by way of dotted lines. (firstthings.com)
His aim in writing the Institutes, Calvin said, was «to prepare and instruct candidates in sacred theology for the reading of the divine Word, in order that they may be able both to have easy access to it and to advance in it without stumbling.» (religion-online.org)