Today in my class, "Doctrine of God", I was trying to communicate with students how the New Testament documents are fundamentally, inherently, and inextricably theological documents.  That is, we don't go to the New Testament, pull out (non-theological) "data", and then try to "get to" theological conclusions.  Rather, the New Testament documents are already theologically-rich and full, and in fact there was already an "apostolic theology" in existence before the emergence of the New Testament that actually gave rise to the New Testament documents.  One student in the class (thanks Jace) took this picture.

To be clear, option (1) is a bit anemic and inadequate, while option (2) is more sound, on my view.

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