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Author: A H Strong
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The present work is a revision and enlargement of my “Systematic Theology,” first published in 1886. Of the original work there have been printed seven editions, each edition embodying successive corrections and supposed improvements. During the twenty years which have intervened since its first publication I have accumulated much new material, which I now offer to the reader. My philosophical and critical point of view meantime has also somewhat changed. While I still hold to the old doctrines, I interpret them differently and expound them more clearly, because I seem to myself to have reached a fundamental truth which throws new light upon them all. This truth I have tried to set forth in my book entitled “Christ in Creation,” and to that book I refer the reader for further information.
Table of Contents
Volume 1
PART I.—PROLEGOMENA
Chapter I.—Idea of Theology
Chapter II.—Material of Theology
Chapter III.—Method of Theology
PART II.—THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
Chapter I.—Origin of our Idea of God’s Existence
Chapter II.—Corroborative Evidences of God’s Existence
Chapter III.—Erroneous Explanations, and Conclusion
PART III.—THE SCRIPTURES A REVELATION FROM GOD
Chapter I.—Preliminary Considerations
Chapter II.—Positive Proofs that the Scriptures are a Divine Revelation
Chapter III.—Inspiration of the Scriptures
PART IV.—THE NATURE, DECREES, AND WORKS OF GOD
Chapter I.—The Attributes of God
Chapter II.—Doctrine of the Trinity
Chapter III.—The Decrees of God
Volume 2
Chapter IV.—The Works of God, or the Execution of the Decrees
Section I.—Creation
Section II.—Preservation
Section III.—Providence
Section IV.—Good and Evil Angels
PART V.—ANTHROPOLOGY, OR THE DOCTRINE OF MAN
Chapter I.—Preliminary
Chapter II.—The original state of man
Chapter III.—Sin, or Man’s State of Apostasy
Section I.—The Law of God
Section II.—Nature of Sin
Section III.—Universality of Sin
Section IV.—Origin of Sin in the Personal Act of Adam
Section V.—Imputation of Adam’s Sin to his Posterity
Section VI.—Consequences of sin to Adam’s posterity
Section VII.—The salvation of infants
PART VI.—SOTERIOLOGY, OR THE DOCTRINE OF SALVATION THROUGH THE WORK OF CHRIST AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
Chapter I.—Christology, or the redemption wrought by christ
Section I.—Historical Preparation for Redemption
Section II.—The Person of Christ
Section III.—The Two States of Christ
Section IV.—The offices of christ
Volume 3
Chapter II.—The Reconciliation oF man to God, or the Application of Redemption Through the Work of the Holy Spirit
Section I.—The Application of Christ’s Redemption, in its Preparation
Section II.—The Application of Christ’s Redemption, in its Actual Beginning
Section III.—The Application of Christ’s Redemption, in its Continuation
PART VII.—ECCLESIOLOGY, OR THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH
Chapter I.—The Constitution of the Church, or Church Polity
Chapter II.—The Ordinances of The Church
PART VIII.—ESCHATOLOGY, OR THE DOCTRINE OF FINAL THINGS
I.—Physical Death
II.—The Intermediate State
III.—The Second Coming of Christ
IV.—The Resurrection
V.—The Last Judgment
VI.—The Final States of the Righteous and of the Wicked
About A H Strong
Augustus Hopkins Strong was born in Rochester, NY on August 3, 1836. He was brought to Christ while attending Yale College, from which he graduated in 1857. He began his theological studies at Rochester Theological Seminary and completed his D.D. in Germany.
After serving Baptist churches in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and Cleveland, Strong was elected president of Rochester Theological Seminary in 1872. He was an active promoter of Baptist missions throughout his life, and from 1907 to 1910 he served as the first president of the Northern Baptist Convention (now the American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A.).
In his forty years at Rochester Seminary Strong taught a theology that combined traditional Reformed emphases, distinctive Baptist convictions on the ordinances and the organization of churches, and a relative openness to modern ideas. He published his multivolume Systematic Theology in 1886. This influential work was revised several times by Strong himself and continues in print to this day. Although Strong was consistently orthodox, he did use the results of modem critical scholarship more than, for example, his near Presbyterian contemporary Charles Hodge. Also, unlike Hodge, Strong was comfortable with the idea that God may have created the world through the processes of evolution. In the 1907 edition of his theology, Strong summarized his views on modern thought: "Neither evolution nor the higher criticism has any terrors to one who regards them as part of Christ's creating and education process."
Yet late in his life Strong spoke out strongly against those who used modem thought to compromise belief in Christ's divinity or his saving work. In the 1907 revision, Strong proposed the counter to modernism that he maintained until he died: Christ as "the one and only Revealer of God, in nature, in humanity, in history, in science, in Scripture."
For Baptists and many more Americans, Strong's Systematics and other carefully crafted books have proven themselves enduring guides to the riches of the faith.
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