This blog is now much better organized:

• I used to label a blog post with one or more of some 200 categories (e.g., “D. A. Carson,” “Calvinism,” “preaching”).
• But now I label a post with just one of six categories:

1. Exegesis. What did authors intend their texts to mean? This includes hermeneutics. (Hermeneutics concerns principles of interpretation, and exegesis applies those principles.)
2. Biblical Theology. How has God revealed his word historically and organically?
3. Historical Theology. What have people thought about exegesis and theology?
4. Systematic Theology. What does the whole Bible teach about certain topics? What is true about God and his universe?
5. Practical Theology. How should humans respond to God’s revelation? This includes, for example, culture, ethics, evangelism, marriage and family, money, pastoral theology, politics, and worship.
6. Other. This covers what doesn’t fit in the above categories.

My blog is called “Thoughts on Theology,” so those seem like the right categories.

I recently organized all 900+ past blog posts to one of those six categories. (The previous 200 or so categories are now “tags.”)

• Definitions. How do I understand exegesis and the four branches of theology? I generally follow the approach I explain in my essay “D. A. Carson’s Theological Method” (see sections 3–4).
• Organization. I basically organize the posts the same way I categorize items in Zotero. See pages 5–7 of “Why You Should Organize Your Personal Theological Library and a Way How” (cf. this 3-minute video). Sometimes a post may fit in multiple categories, so choosing just one can be subjective.