Systematic Theology Revised Edition


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Author: 
Louis Berkof
Publisher: 
Eerdmans (paper =back; 984 pages)
ISBN: 
0802838200 (9780802838209)
List price: 
$48.00

I spent many happy hours on a train going from Aberdeen to wherever during graduate school, huddled in the car sipping coffee and reading this book from cover to cover. It was my first real systematic theology text and I was joyfully surprised to hear theology so well-reasoned. This is a standard work in the field. And actually, Wayne Grudem's textbook started as a massive syllabus he used in conjunction with Berkof. As a secondary text to Grudem, it is great reading.


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38200: Systematic Theology                        Revised Edition

For the first time in its long and acclaimed history, Louis Berkhof's monumental treatment of the doctrines of the Reformed faith is now available together in one volume with his Introduction to the Study of Systematic Theology, which serves as the prolegomenon to his theology. Designed to be read together with his Systematic Theology, the Introduction includes Berkhof's discussions of the nature and character of dogmatics, the methods and history of theological systematics, and the principia, or foundations, of theology: Scripture and God. This edition also includes a new preface by Richard A. Muller that explains both the publishing history and the relation and importance of the Introduction to the rest of Berkhof's text.

Written in a concise style and organized in a manner ideal for detailed study, Systematic Theology covers the full range of systematic loci including the doctrines of God, anthropology, Christology, soteriology, ecclesiology, and eschatology. The work also includes an extensive bibliography and full indexes to the authors, subjects, and Scriptures referenced in the text. Revised and enlarged throughout his lifetime until it reached its final form, Systematic Theology not only stands as Berkhof's magnum opus, but also is widely considered to be the most important twentieth-century compendium of Reformed theology.