Systematic Theology

SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY

A Compendium and Commonplace Book

DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF

THEOLOGICAL STUDENTS

BY

AUGUSTUS HOPKINS STRONG, D. D., LL. D.

PRESIDENT AND PROFESSOR OF BIBLICAL THEOLOGY IN THE

ROCHESTER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

THREE VOLUMES IN ONE

DELMARVA PUBLICATIONS, INC.

PO BOX 96

HARRINGTON, DE 19952

Published in 2015

About this Volume 
Systematic Theology by Augustus Hopkins Strong, D. D., LL. D. (president and professor of Biblical Theology in the Rochester Theological Seminary) was originally published in three volumes and divided into Eight Parts:

PART I - PROLEGOMENA
PART II - THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
PART III - THE SCRIPTURES A REVELATION FROM GOD
PART IV - THE NATURE, DECREES, AND WORKS OF GOD
PART V - ANTHROPOLOGY, OR THE DOCTRINE OF MAN
PART VI - SOTERIOLOGY, OR THE DOCTRINE OF SALVATION THROUGH THE WORK OF CHRIST AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
PART VII - ECCLESIOLOGY, OR THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH
PART VIII - ESCHATOLOGY, OR THE DOCTRINE OF FINAL THINGS

Volume one contended the in Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and the first three chapters of Part 4. Volume 2 contained the remainder of Part 4, Part 5, and the first chapter of Part 6. Volume 3 contained the rest of Part 6, Part 7, and Part 8.

In this volume, we have combined all eight parts. Here is a complete list of the contents: 
Table of Contents

PREFACE

PART I - PROLEGOMENA

CHAPTER I - IDEA OF THEOLOGY

I. Definition of Theology

II. Aim of Theology

III. Possibility of Theology

IV. Necessity.The necessity of theology has its grounds

V. Relation of Theology to Religion

CHAPTER II - MATERIAL OF THEOLOGY

I Sources of Theology

II. Limitations of Theology

III. Relations of Material to Progress in Theology

CHAPTER  III - METHOD OF THEOLOGY

I. Requisites to the Study

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

CHAPTER  I - ORIGIN OF OUR IDEA OF GOD'S EXISTENCE

I. First Truths in General

II. The Existence of God a first truth

III. Other Supposed Sources of our Idea of God's Existence

IV. Contents of this Intuition

CHAPTER  II - CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCES OF GOD'S EXISTENCE

I. The Cosmological Argument

II. The Teleologioal Argument

III. The Anthropological Argument

IV. The Ontological Argument

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

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

IV. Prophecy as Attesting a Divine Revelation

V. Principles of Historical Evidence applicable to the Proof of a Divine Revelation

CHAPTER II - POSITIVE PROOFS THAT THE SCRIPTURES ARE A DIVINE REVELATION

I. The Genuineness of the Christian Documents

II. Credibility of the Writers of the Scriptures

III. The Supernatural Character of the Scripture Teaching

IV. The Historical Results of the Propagation of Scripture Doctrine

CHAPTER III - INSPIRATION OF THE SCRIPTURES

I. Definition of Inspiration

II. Proof of Inspiration

III. Theories of Inspiration

IV. The Union of the Divine and Human Elements in Inspiration

V. Objections to the Doctrin

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