Soul... Knowing God, Day 2 -- Who Needs Theology?

In the first part of his chapter entitled "The Study of God" (chapter one of his book "Knowing God"), J.I. Packer begins by examining the reasons to (properly) study God. He answers a hypothetical questioner, who is asking why a series of studies on the nature and character of God are really necessary and worthwhile, in the following manner:
"The questioner clearly assumes that a study of the nature and character of God will be impractical and irrelevant for life. In fact, howeer, it is the most practical project anyone can engage in. Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives. As it would be cruel to an Amazonian tribesman to fly him to London, put him down without explanation in Trafalgar Square and leave him, as one who knew nothing of English or England, to fend for himself, so we are cruel to ourselves if we try to live in this world without knowing about the God Whose world it is and Who runs it. The world becomes a strange, mad, painful place, and life in it a disappointing and unpleasant business, for those who do not know about God" (page 19, emphasis added by me in bold text).

Packer goes on to warn us that, though the study of God is worthwhile, we must start by "setting out in a storm", plugging our ears to the slogans and inaccuracies of the so-called debate about God, which asks us to buy into the lie that "knowledge about God is strictly a nonentity. Types of teaching which profess such knowledge are written off as outmoded -- 'Calvinism,' 'fundamentalism,' 'Protestant scholasticism,' 'the old orthodoxy'." (Page 19.)

Studying God in spirit and in truth, according to His Word, means that we are, after all, pursuing the Holy One of the universe, on His terms, in obedience to His commands -- what journey could be more worthy of our persistence, no matter what we are accused of or called?