Abstract of Systematic Theology – James P. Boyce

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Something a little bit meatier to help you get to grips with some of the major doctrines taught in God’s precious word. This is an eminently Biblical and sound volume answering almost any query a Sunday School teacher, deacon, father and mother, young person, or even a pastor might have.

Overview

Abstract of Systematic Theology contains forty-two essays ranging in topic from the doctrines of God, the Trinity, and humanity, to creation, providence, and justification. Boyce also wrote extensively on the issues of election, atonement, and the immortality of the soul. Boyce’s theology was heavily influenced by Charles Hodge, and he used Hodge’s Systematic Theology text at the Southern Baptist Seminary. The essays found in Abstract of Systematic Theology were originally intended to supplement the content of Boyce’s systematic theology classes at the seminary from 1859–1888. Boyce compiled and completed Abstract of Systematic Theology in 1887. William A. Mueller said of the Abstract: “it is no mere logic chopping treatise but is vibrant with an experimental faith centered in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior… .”

Boyce became a pastor, then a university professor, and finally the founder and first president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he taught theology from 1859 until his death in 1888. Throughout his ministry Boyce insisted on the importance of theological education for all ministers. In a preface, he described his Abstract of Systematic Theology, published the year before his death, as follows: “This volume is published the rather as a practical text book, for the study of the system of doctrine taught in the Word of God, than as a contribution to theological science.”

CONTENTS

Chapter 1: THE SCIENCE OF THEOLOGY

Chapter 2: THE BEING OF GOD

Chapter 3: REASON AND REVELATION

Chapter 4: THE UNITY OF GOD

Chapter 5: SPIRITUALITY OF GOD

Chapter 6: DIVINE ATTRIBUTES

Chapter 7: THE IMMUTABILITY OF GOD

Chapter 8: THE POWER OF GOD

Chapter 9: THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD

Chapter 10: HOLINESS, GOODNESS, LOVE AND TRUTH

Chapter 11: JUSTICE OF GOD

Chapter 12: THE WILL OF GOD

Chapter 13: THE DECREES OF GOD

Chapter 14: THE TRINITY

Chapter 15: PERSONAL RELATIONS IN TRINITY

Chapter 16: OUTWARD RELATIONS OF THE TRINITY

Chapter 17: CREATION

Chapter 18: CREATION OF ANGELS

Chapter 19: FALLEN ANGELS

Chapter 20: CREATION OF MAN

Chapter 21:PROVIDENCE

Chapter 22: THE FALL OF MAN

Chapter 23: THE EFFECTS OF THE SIN OF ADAM

Chapter 24: THE HEADSHIP OF ADAM

Chapter 25: CHRIST IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

Chapter 26: THE PERSON OF CHRIST

Chapter 27: THE OFFICES OF CHRIST

Chapter 28: THE ATONEMENT OF CHRIST

Chapter 29: ELECTION

Chapter 30: REPROBATION

Chapter 31: OUTWARD AND EFFECTUAL CALLING

Chapter 32: REGENERATION AND CONVERSION

Chapter 33: REPENTANCE

Chapter 34: FAITH

Chapter 35: JUSTIFICATION

Chapter 36: ADOPTION

Chapter 37: SANCTIFICATION

Chapter 38: FINAL PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS

Chapter 39: DEATH AND THE SOUL’S IMMORTALITY

Chapter 40: CHRIST’S SECOND COMING, AND THE RESURRECTION

Chapter 41: THE FINAL JUDGEMENT

Chapter 42: THE FINAL STATES OF THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED