Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3)

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Author

Strong, Augustus Hopkins, 1836-1921

Language

English

LoC Class

BT: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity: Doctrinal theology, God, Christology

Subject

Baptists -- Doctrines

Category

Text

eBook-No.

44035

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44035

Release Date

October 25, 2013

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Contents — Preface — Part I. Prolegomena.
2. 2.Chapter I. Idea Of Theology. — I. Definition of Theology. — II. Aim of Theology. — III. Possibility of Theology. — 1. The existence of a God. — 2. Man's capacity for the knowledge of God — 3. God's revelation of himself to man. — IV. Necessity of Theology. — V. Relation of Theology to Religion. — 1. Derivation. — 2. False Conceptions. — 3. Essential Idea. — 4. Inferences.
3. 3.Chapter II. Material of Theology. — I. Sources of Theology. — 1. Scripture and Nature. — 2. Scripture and Rationalism. — 3. Scripture and Mysticism. — 4. Scripture and Romanism. — II. Limitations of Theology. — III. Relations of Material to Progress in Theology.
4. 4.Chapter III. Method Of Theology. — I. Requisites to the study of Theology. — II. Divisions of Theology. — III. History of Systematic Theology. — IV. Order of Treatment in Systematic Theology. — V. Text-Books in Theology. — Part II. The Existence Of God.
5. 5.Chapter I. Origin Of Our Idea Of God's Existence. — I. First Truths in General. — II. The Existence of God a first truth. — 1. Its universality. — 2. Its necessity. — 3. Its logical independence and priority. — III. Other Supposed Sources of our Idea of God's Existence. — IV. Contents of this Intuition.
6. 6.Chapter II. Corroborative Evidences Of God's Existence. — I. The Cosmological Argument, or Argument from Change in Nature. — II. The Teleological Argument, or Argument from Order and Useful Collocation in Nature. — III. The Anthropological Argument, or Argument from Man's Mental and Moral Nature. — IV. The Ontological Argument, or Argument from our Abstract and Necessary Ideas.
7. 7.Chapter III. Erroneous Explanations, And Conclusion. — I. Materialism. — II. Materialistic Idealism. — III. Idealistic Pantheism. — IV. Ethical Monism. — Part III. The Scriptures A Revelation From God.
8. 8.Chapter I. Preliminary Considerations. — I. Reasons a priori for expecting a Revelation from God. — II. Marks of the Revelation man may expect. — III. Miracles, as attesting a Divine Revelation. — 1. Definition of Miracle. — 2. Possibility of Miracle. — 3. Probability of Miracles. — 4. Amount of Testimony necessary to prove a Miracle. — 5. Evidential force of Miracles. — 6. Counterfeit Miracles. — IV. Prophecy as Attesting a Divine Revelation. — V. Principles of Historical Evidence applicable to the Proof of a Divine Revelation. — 1. As to documentary evidence. — 2. As to testimony in general.
9. 9.Chapter II. Positive Proofs That The Scriptures Are A Divine Revelation. — I. Genuineness of the Christian Documents. — 1. Genuineness of the Books of the New Testament. — 2. Genuineness of the Books of the Old Testament. — II. Credibility of the Writers of the Scriptures. — III. The Supernatural Character of the Scripture Teaching. — 1. Scripture teaching in general. — 2. Moral System of the New Testament. — 3. The person and character of Christ. — 4. The testimony of Christ to himself—as being a messenger from God and as being one with God. — IV. The Historical Results of the Propagation of Scripture Doctrine.
10. 10.Chapter III. Inspiration Of The Scriptures. — I. Definition of Inspiration. — II. Proof of Inspiration. — III. Theories of Inspiration. — 1. The Intuition-theory. — 2. The Illumination Theory. — 3. The Dictation-theory. — 4. The Dynamical Theory. — IV. The Union of the Divine and Human Elements in Inspiration. — V. Objections to the Doctrine of Inspiration. — 1. Errors in matters of Science. — 2. Errors in matters of History. — 3. Errors in Morality. — 4. Errors of Reasoning. — 5. Errors in quoting or interpreting the Old Testament. — 6. Errors in Prophecy. — 7. Certain books unworthy of a place in inspired Scripture. — Part IV. The Nature, Decrees, And Works Of God.
11. 11.Chapter I. The Attributes Of God. — I. Definition of the term Attributes. — II. Relation of the divine Attributes to the divine Essence. — III. Methods of determining the divine Attributes. — IV. Classification of the Attributes. — V. Absolute or Immanent Attributes. — First division.—Spirituality, and attributes therein involved. — Second Division.—Infinity, and attributes therein involved. — Third Division.—Perfection, and attributes therein involved. — VI. Relative or Transitive Attributes. — First Division.—Attributes having relation to Time and Space. — Second Division.—Attributes having relation to Creation. — Third Division.—Attributes having relation to Moral Beings. — VII. Rank and Relations of the several Attributes. — 1. Holiness the fundamental attribute in God. — 2. The holiness of God the ground of moral obligation.
12. 12.Chapter II. Doctrine Of The Trinity. — I. In Scriptures there are Three who are recognized as God. — 1. Proofs from the New Testament. — 2. Intimations of the Old Testament. — II. These Three are so described in Scripture that we are compelled to conceive of them as distinct Persons. — 1. The Father and the Son are persons distinct from each other. — 2. The Father and the Son are persons distinct from the Spirit. — 3. The Holy Spirit is a person. — III. This Tripersonality of the Divine Nature is not merely economic and temporal, but is immanent and eternal. — 1. Scripture proof that these distinctions of personality are eternal. — 2. Errors refuted by the foregoing passages. — IV. This Tripersonality is not Tritheism; for, while there are three Persons, there is but one Essence. — V. The Three Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, are equal. — 1. These titles belong to the Persons. — 2. Qualified sense of these titles. — 3. Generation and procession consistent with equality. — VI. Inscrutable, yet not self-contradictory, this Doctrine furnishes the Key to all other Doctrines. — 1. The mode of this triune existence is inscrutable. — 2. The Doctrine of the Trinity is not self-contradictory. — 3. The doctrine of the Trinity has important relations to other doctrines.
13. 13.Chapter III. The Decrees Of God. — I. Definition of Decrees. — II. Proof of the Doctrine of Decrees. — 1. From Scripture. — 2. From Reason. — III. Objections to the Doctrine of Decrees. — 1. That they are inconsistent with the free agency of man. — 2. That they take away all motive for human exertion. — 3. That they make God the author of sin. — IV. Concluding Remarks. — 1. Practical uses of the doctrine of decrees. — 2. True method of preaching the doctrine.

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