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title: "Offsite Review: A Little Book for New Theologians by Kelly Kapic"
description: "I keep meaning to pick up A Little Book for New Theologians: Why and How to Study Theology by Kelly Kapic.  It is a small book, only 126 pages.  And cheap, only $4.93 right now on kindle.  I have..."
url: https://bookwi.se/offsite-review-a-little-book-for-new-theologians-by-kelly-kapic/
date: 2012-12-04
modified: 2026-07-15
author: "Adam Shields"
categories: ["Off Site Reviews"]
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# Offsite Review: A Little Book for New Theologians by Kelly Kapic

[![A Little Book for New Theologians](https://bookwi.se/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/cover-9387.jpg)](http://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-New-Theologians-ebook/dp/B009PI94R8)I keep meaning to pick up [A Little Book for New Theologians: Why and How to Study Theology by Kelly Kapic](http://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-New-Theologians-ebook/dp/B009PI94R8/).  It is a small book, only 126 pages.  And cheap, only $4.93 right now on kindle.  I have seen several very positive reviews of it, but I have tried to limit my purchases to buying what I can reasonably read in the next week or two so I don’t buy a bunch of books that I never get around to reading.  But [this review](http://www.faithvillage.com/article/25cb3c8cdee44211ac26ac0cd1630cb9/a_little_book_for_new_theologians__kelly_kapic_book_review) (IVP posted a link to in from their facebook page), makes me want to move it up my reading list.

> The fact that “œtheology” gets such a bad wrap within the church may be owing more to the theologian than the subject itself. You see, doing theology well depends on being a certain kind of theologian, and the failure to be that kind of theologian is what leads to dry, useless, and oppressive theology. As a professor of theology at Covenant College, Kelly Kapic knows this. A Little Book for New Theologians looks at some of these often overlooked principels for “œdoing theology.” It is the perfect tool for introducing new theologians to the discipline itself.

[continue reading the rest of the review at faithvillage](http://www.faithvillage.com/article/25cb3c8cdee44211ac26ac0cd1630cb9/a_little_book_for_new_theologians__kelly_kapic_book_review)