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1 The Project Gutenberg EBook of Systematic Theology (Volume1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins StrongThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no costand with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copyit, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the ProjectGutenberg License included with this eBook or online : Systematic Theology ( volume 1 of 3)Author: Augustus Hopkins StrongRelease Date: October 25, 2013 [Ebook 44035]Language: English**START OF THE Project Gutenberg EBOOKSYSTEMATIC Theology ( volume 1 OF 3)** Systematic TheologyA Compendium and Commonplace-BookDesigned For The Use Of Theological StudentsByAugustus Hopkins Strong, , and Professor of Biblical Theology in theRochester Theological SeminaryRevised and EnlargedIn Three VolumesVolume 1 The Doctrine of GodThe Judson PressPhiladelphia, Boston, Chicago, St.

2 Louis, Los Angeles,Kansas City, Seattle, Toronto1907 ContentsPreface .. 3 Part I. Prolegomena.. 9 Chapter I. Idea Of Theology .. 9I. Definition of Theology .. 9II. Aim of Theology .. 10 III. Possibility of Theology .. 12IV. Necessity of Theology .. 41V. Relation of Theology to Religion.. 50 Chapter II. Material of Theology .. 61I. Sources of Theology .. 61II. Limitations of Theology .. 82 III. Relations of Material to Progress in Theology . 86 Chapter III. Method Of Theology .. 90I. Requisites to the study of Theology .. 90II. Divisions of Theology .. 96 III. History of Systematic Theology .

3 103IV. Order of Treatment in Systematic Theology .. 117V. Text-Books in Theology .. 119 Part II. The Existence Of God.. 121 Chapter I. Origin Of Our Idea Of God's Existence.. 121I. First Truths in General.. 124II. The Existence of God a first truth.. 129 III. Other Supposed Sources of our Idea of God'sExistence.. 143IV. Contents of this Intuition.. 154 Chapter II. Corroborative Evidences Of God's The Cosmological Argument, or Argumentfrom Change in Nature.. 166ivSystematic Theology ( volume 1 of 3)II. The Teleological Argument, or Argumentfrom Order and Useful Collocation inNature.

4 170 III. The Anthropological Argument, or Argumentfrom Man's Mental and Moral Nature.. 183IV. The Ontological Argument, or Argumentfrom our Abstract and Necessary Ideas.. 194 Chapter III. Erroneous Explanations, And Conclusion. 204I. Materialism.. 204II. Materialistic Idealism.. 216 III. Idealistic Pantheism.. 227IV. Ethical Monism.. 239 Part III. The Scriptures A Revelation From God.. 252 Chapter I. Preliminary Considerations.. 252I. Reasonsa priorifor expecting a Revelationfrom God.. 252II. Marks of the Revelation man may expect.. 258 III. Miracles, as attesting a Divine Revelation.

5 265IV. Prophecy as Attesting a Divine Revelation.. 303V. Principles of Historical Evidence applicableto the Proof of a Divine Revelation.. 320 Chapter II. Positive Proofs That The Scriptures Are ADivine Revelation.. 328I. Genuineness of the Christian Documents.. 328II. Credibility of the Writers of the Scriptures.. 391 III. The Supernatural Character of the ScriptureTeaching.. 396IV. The Historical Results of the Propagation ofScripture Doctrine.. 433 Chapter III. Inspiration Of The Scriptures.. 445I. Definition of Inspiration.. 445II. Proof of Inspiration.. 450 III.

6 Theories of Inspiration.. 460vIV. The Union of the Divine and Human Ele-ments in Inspiration.. 483V. Objections to the Doctrine of Inspiration.. 505 Part IV. The Nature, Decrees, And Works Of God.. 555 Chapter I. The Attributes Of God.. 555I. Definition of the term Attributes.. 556II. Relation of the divine Attributes to the divineEssence.. 557 III. Methods of determining the divine Attributes. 563IV. Classification of the Attributes.. 564V. Absolute or Immanent Attributes.. 568VI. Relative or Transitive Attributes.. 628 VII. Rank and Relations of the several Attributes.

7 676 Chapter II. Doctrine Of The Trinity.. 695I. In Scriptures there are Three who are recog-nized as God.. 698II. These Three are so described in Scripture thatwe are compelled to conceive of them asdistinct Persons.. 739 III. This Tripersonality of the Divine Nature isnot merely economic and temporal, butis immanent and eternal.. 748IV. This Tripersonality is not Tritheism; for,while there are three Persons, there is butone Essence.. 758V. The Three Persons, Father, Son, and HolySpirit, are equal.. 766VI. Inscrutable, yet not self-contradictory, thisDoctrine furnishes the Key to all otherDoctrines.

8 789 Chapter III. The Decrees Of God.. 810I. Definition of Decrees.. 810II. Proof of the Doctrine of Decrees.. 814 III. Objections to the Doctrine of Decrees.. 825viSystematic Theology ( volume 1 of 3)IV. Concluding Remarks.. 844[Transcriber's Note: The above cover image was produced bythe submitter at Distributed Proofreaders, and is being placedinto the public domain.][v]Christo Deo Salvatori. THE EYE SEES ONLY THAT WHICH IT BRINGS WITH IT THE POWEROF SEEING. Cicero. OPEN THOU MINE EYES,THATIMAY BEHOLD WONDROUS THINGSOUT OF THY LAW. Psalm 119:18. FOR WITH THEE IS THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE: IN THY LIGHT SHALLWE SEE LIGHT.

9 Psalm 36:9. FOR WE KNOW IN PART,AND WE PROPHESY IN PART;BUT WHENTHAT WHICH IS PERFECT IS COME,THAT WHICH IS IN PART SHALL BEDONE AWAY. 1 Cor. 13:9, 10.[vii]PrefaceThe present work is a revision and enlargement of my SystematicTheology, first published in 1886. Of the original workthere have been printed seven editions, each edition embodyingsuccessive corrections and supposed improvements. During thetwenty years which have intervened since its first publication Ihave accumulated much new material, which I now offer to thereader. My philosophical and critical point of view meantime hasalso somewhat changed.

10 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 truthwhich throws new light upon them all. This truth I have triedto set forth in my book entitled Christ in Creation, and to thatbook I refer the reader for further Christ is the one and only Revealer of God, in nature, inhumanity, in history, in science, in Scripture, is in my judgmentthe key to Theology . This view implies a monistic and idealisticconception of the world, together with an evolutionary ideaas to its origin and progress.