Featured What are the best Baptist Systematic Theologies?

James P Boyce had the Abstract which is very good

 

Here's a list of Baptist Systematic Theology books available through Logos Bible Software along with a very concise description.


A Complete Body of Doctrinal and Practical Divinity by John Gill John Gill (b1697–d1771) Described by some as a hyper-Calvinist

Discourse on the Five Points by Daniel Whitby (1710) Arminian, This book elicited a response from John Gill, his The Cause of God and Truth, as well as from Jonathan Edwards, with Freedom of the Will.

The Works of John L. Dagg (4 vols.) by John L. Dagg (1859–1869) Known as the first Baptist systematic theologian,

Abstract of Systematic Theology by James Petigru Boyce (1887) Southern Baptist

Systematic Theology (3 vols.) by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1907) Reformed, Calvinistic

The Christian Religion in Its Doctrinal Expression by Edgar Young Mullins (1917) A Southern Baptist theologian

Biblical Systematics by F. Leroy Forlines (1975) A contemporary yet historic interpretation of Classical Reformed Arminianism

A Free Will Baptist Handbook by J. Matthew Pinson (1998) Arminian theology of free grace, free salvation, and free will.

God, Revelation, and Authority (6 vols.) by Carl F. H. Henry (1999) Evangelical

The Quest for Truth: Theology for Postmodern Times by F. Leroy Forlines (2001) An overview of systematic theology from a contemporary Reformed Arminianist viewpoint

Basic Bible Doctrine by Don Fortner (2007) Sovereign (free) grace soteriology and evangelical perspective

A Systematic Theology of Biblical Christianity (3 vols.) by Rolland McCune (2009–2010) Dispensational, pretribulational, premillennial, young earth creationist, Calvinist soteriology

Systematic Theology (2 vols.) by James Leo Garrett Jr. (2014) Historical premillenialism

Rob

 

Read W.T. Conner, liked J. M Pendleton struggled the the Ad Tedium of Strong. I made it through only with magnifying glass. It remains the most Complete study not to be neglected by preachers. When I was a student at GGBTS we were forced to read E. Bruner. Three volumes and the mediator and some elements of Barth. If I had not read the three I mentioned previously I would still be confused.

 

There seems to be a lot of non-Baptist suggestions, but I would say Grudem, Strong, and (though not quite a systematic theology) "A Theology for the Church" by Daniel Akin.

 

I just ordered a JM Pendleton Bible Doctrines off Thriftbook. 5 bucks including shipping! A deal and a classic Systematic Theology. Can't go wrong with that!

 

Once pastor Bowling Green KY before Civil War; friend of JR Graves, broke w/him over slavery (Pendleton went north, wrote an excellent church manual from Landmark perspective, Amr Bap Publ Hse, pre-1900;later version "watered down" but still helpful.)

 

Some modern Baptist systematic theologies to consider. None are Calvinist or Reformed, or Dispensational.

1) Clark Pinnock, Flame of Love. (Not a typical title, but, yes, his systematic theology.)
2) Stanley Grenz, Theology for the Community of God.
3) James Wm. McClendon, Jr., Ethics (Systematic Theology Vol. 1); Doctrine (Systematic Theology Vol. 2); Witness (Systematic Theology, Vol. 3)

 

Welcome to the BaptistBoard, Shawn_L.

I have not read any of those ST texts.
But have read other books by the first two authors.
Pinnock, to my recollection, is an Open Theist, read carefully.

I just put McClendon's books on my long to-be-read list.

Rob