Chrles Hodge disagrees!
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What are the best Baptist Systematic Theologies?
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He was a Dospy baptist, correct?
THE standard reform one!
Very good, best dispy st written so far!So, does anyone have an opinion on Chafer?
Preferably someone who has read his, of course.
What school's are using Hodge?
I checked out Princeton Theological Seminary, you can pull up the booklist by checking a box before entering your search. I see two separate Systematic Theology classes, with wildly different book lists. Everything from Barth to the Institutes.
https://inside.ptsem.edu/Catalogue/Courses.aspx
was a joke...... His set would be a big door stopper!
From what I could find out about him online, he grew up in the German Baptist Brethren. These are credo-baptists, but more properly Brethren than what most of us think of as Baptists. I could not find out anything that clearly spelled out his later affiliations, but one place mentioned him being called by an Evangelical Free Church (don't think it said whether he accepted it), and his funeral was held at the Evangelical Free Church in the town where he lived (which doesn't necessarily mean affiliation). Maybe someone else has more detailed knowledge.
Think that he was against Covenant theology, and was a moderate dispy,,,
What would I call the best Systematic Theology text?
There just are not any Systematic Theology texts that deal with topics in great detail so I find it difficult to recommend any particular volumes...
The problem with older Systematic Theology texts is that they may be "good" but they just aren't the "best".
When I read a Systematic Theology text I want one that deals with contemporary issues, ...the older one just don't do that.
I like Geisler's 4 volume set (although he's not Baptist)
Here is another one worth reading.
Exploring Christian Theology (3 vols)
by Nathan Holsteen and Michael Svigel (2014-2015)
Rob
There just are not any Systematic Theology texts that deal with topics in great detail so I find it difficult to recommend any particular volumes...
The problem with older Systematic Theology texts is that they may be "good" but they just aren't the "best".
When I read a Systematic Theology text I want one that deals with contemporary issues, ...the older one just don't do that.
I like Geisler's 4 volume set (although he's not Baptist)
His methodology is quite appealing to me, very comprehensive... certainly not concise.
Here is another one worth reading.
Exploring Christian Theology (3 vols)
by Nathan Holsteen and Michael Svigel (2014-2015)
Evangelical, dispensational (DTS), concise and readable, not overly dogmatic.
Rob
I asked over email on monday
This is why I would use one like aBerkhoof/Cjafer/Hodge, and update with erickson/grudem!
While looking for another book on my shelves, I noticed this one I had not thought about. Over the years I have found Pendleton's Christian Doctrines a very helpful book.
Christian Doctrines: a Compendium of Theology
Christian Doctrines: a Compendium of Theology
Right in my neck of the woods, and assuming that its Dispy, pre trib/mil?
I haven't read the book. So, I can only go on the author and his school's reputation. So, I would assume that it's dispensational, pre-trib\premil. But, eschatology is only one chapter in a systematic theology.
Rolland McCune was one of my Professors at Central Seminary back in the early 70s.
He is dispensational, Calvinist, and one of the most brilliant men I have ever known.
He raised eyebrows at Central by teaching OT History from the NASB. (The NASB being one of the most accurate of all English translations of the Old Testament.)
By the way, an excellent article in the Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal by Dr. McCune titled DOCTRINAL NON-ISSUES IN HISTORIC FUNDAMENTALISM that discusses current trends among Fundamentalists that were never an issue in Historic Fundamentalism. Good read.
http://www.dbts.edu/journals/1996_2/NonIssue.pdf
Very interesting, so he would be another one like Dr Macarthur who is a Dispy calvinist?Rolland McCune was one of my Professors at Central Seminary back in the early 70s.
He is dispensational, Calvinist, and one of the most brilliant men I have ever known.
He raised eyebrows at Central by teaching OT History from the NASB. (The NASB being one of the most accurate of all English translations of the Old Testament.)
By the way, an excellent article in the Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal by Dr. McCune titled DOCTRINAL NON-ISSUES IN HISTORIC FUNDAMENTALISM that discusses current trends among Fundamentalists that were never an issue in Historic Fundamentalism. Good read.
http://www.dbts.edu/journals/1996_2/NonIssue.pdf
Chafer's 7 Volume (and 1 index) was my Theology text at Calvary University, KCMO but that was 1969- 1974. It was unashamedly dispensational but I thought it was excellent.So, does anyone have an opinion on Chafer?
Preferably someone who has read his, of course.
HankD
Well, the OP is BAPTIST Systematic Theologies and Chafer was a life long Congregationalist.
He was a student of C.I. Scofield and was thusly a very strong Darby type dispensationalist and his writings reflect that.
But as with all such things, read it, keep the good and spit out the bad.
Well, the OP is BAPTIST Systematic Theologies and Chafer was a life long Congregationalist.
He was a student of C.I. Scofield and was thusly a very strong Darby type dispensationalist and his writings reflect that.
But as with all such things, read it, keep the good and spit out the bad.
I had a Thiessen and the Institutes as backups
HankD