Abbreviations | p. 8 |
Editor's Acknowledgments | p. 9 |
Editor's Preface | p. 11 |
A Historical and Theological Introduction to W. G. T. Shedd and His Dogmatic Theology | p. 16 |
Author's Preface | p. 37 |
Theological Introduction | |
True Method in Theological Science | p. 43 |
Plan, Divisions, and Subdivisions | p. 46 |
Description of Topics | |
Biblical, Systematic, and Polemical Theology | |
Nature and Definition of Theological Science | p. 51 |
Definition of Theology | |
Whether Theology Is a Science | |
Theology as an Absolute Science | |
Theology as a Positive Science | |
Bibliology | |
Revelation and Inspiration | p. 85 |
General Revelation | |
Special Revelation | |
Nature of Inspiration | |
Nature of Revelation | |
Infallibility of Inspiration | |
Authenticity of Scripture | p. 125 |
Credibility of Scripture | p. 127 |
Credibility of the New Testament | |
Theories Opposing New Testament Credibility | |
Limitations of New Testament Evidence for Credibility | |
Credibility of the Old Testament | |
Canonicity of Scripture | p. 146 |
Theology (Doctrine of God) | |
Nature and Definition of God | p. 153 |
God's Spirituality | |
God's Substantiality | |
God's Personality | |
Innate Idea and Knowledge of God | p. 185 |
Evidence from Scripture for an Innate Knowledge of God | |
Arguments from Pagan Philosophers for an Innate Knowledge of God | |
Arguments against an Innate Knowledge of God | |
Monotheism as the Original Form of Man's Innate Knowledge of God | |
Inadequacy of Natural Religion | |
Arguments for the Divine Existence | p. 201 |
Uses of Syllogistic Arguments for the Divine Existence | |
Ontological Argument: Statement of the Position | |
Ontological Argument: Examination of Objections | |
Cosmological Argument | |
Teleological Argument | |
Moral Argument | |
Historical Argument | |
Trinity in Unity | p. 219 |
Preliminary Considerations | |
Divine Unity and Trinality: An Overview | |
Scriptural Evidence for the Doctrine of the Trinity | |
Proper Use of Trinitarian Terminology | |
God Is One in Respect to Essence | |
God Is Three in Respect to Persons | |
Characteristics of Trinitarian Persons: Internal and External | |
Deity of God the Father | |
Deity of God the Son | |
Deity of God the Holy Spirit | |
Divine Attributes | p. 274 |
Divine Attributes: Methods of Classification | |
Self-Existence (Aseity) | |
Simplicity | |
Infinity | |
Immensity and Omnipresence | |
Eternity | |
Immutability | |
Omniscience | |
Omnipotence | |
Holiness (Including Justice) | |
Goodness (Including Benevolence and Mercy) | |
Truth | |
The Divine Decrees | p. 311 |
Preliminary Considerations | |
Characteristics of the Divine Decree | |
Efficacious and Permissive Decrees | |
Fate, Certainty, Compulsion, and Necessity | |
Predestination | |
Election | |
Reprobation | |
Arminian and Calvinistic Systems Compared | |
Objections to Election and Reprobation Answered | |
Decree of Election and the Decree of Redemption | |
Teaching and Preaching the Doctrines of Election and Reprobation | |
Creation | p. 366 |
Creation Ex Nihilo | |
Creation Account in Genesis | |
Harmony of the Biblical Creation Account with Physical Science | |
Eternity of Matter vs. Creation Ex Nihilo | |
Theory of Evolution vs. Creation Ex Nihilo | |
Antiquity of Man | |
Providence | p. 412 |
Miracles | p. 416 |
Anthropology | |
Man's Creation | p. 429 |
Preliminary Considerations | |
Theories of the Mode of Man's Creation | |
General Approaches to the Doctrine of Original Sin | |
Scriptural Support for Traducianism | |
Theological Arguments for Traducianism | |
Physiological Arguments for Traducianism | |
Traducianism as Both Mysterious and Reasonable | |
Answers to the Principal Objections against Traducianism | |
Man's Primitive State | p. 494 |
Preliminary Considerations | |
Two Phases of Holiness: Knowledge and Inclination | |
Proof That Man Was Created Holy | |
Voluntariness as Self-Determination | |
Refutation of the Theory That Freedom Consists in Indetermination or Indifference | |
Human Will | p. 509 |
Definition of the Will | |
Objections to the More Recent Psychology | |
Scriptural Passages and Terms Defining the Will | |
Inclination vs. Volition | |
Man's Probation and Apostasy | p. 535 |
Adam and Eve as Mutably Holy by Creation | |
Covenant of Works | |
Nature of the First Sin | |
Death as the Consequence of the First Sin | |
Cause of the First Sin | |
Original Sin | p. 550 |
Preliminary Considerations | |
Adam's Sin as Twofold: Internal and External | |
Imputation of Adamic Guilt | |
Original Sin as a Corruption of Nature | |
Corruption of Nature as Guilt | |
Original Sin as Voluntary Inclination | |
Original Sin and Moral Inability | |
Moral Inability and Moral Obligation | |
Christology | |
Christ's Theanthropic Person | p. 613 |
Preliminary Considerations | |
Christ's Divine Nature and the Second Trinitarian Person | |
Incarnation vs. Transmutation | |
Christ as a Single Person in Two Natures | |
Divine Nature as the Root of Christ's Person | |
Beginning and Continuation of Christ's Theanthropic Personality | |
Incarnation and Divine Immutability | |
Incarnation as the Assumption of a Nature, Not a Person | |
Sanctification of Christ's Human Nature | |
Self-Consciousness of the God-man | |
Christ's Divinity | p. 645 |
Christ's Humanity | p. 646 |
Christ's Unipersonality | p. 649 |
Biblical Evidence for Christ's Unipersonality | |
Predication of Divine and Human Qualities to the God-man | |
Christ's Twofold Consciousness | |
Lutheran Doctrine of "Communication of Properties" | |
Hypostatic Union and the Two Wills in Christ | |
Christ's Impeccability | p. 659 |
Christ's Impeccability Proven from Scripture | |
Christ's Impeccability Proven from the Constitution of His Person | |
Impeccability Consistent with Temptability | |
Sinful vs. Innocent Temptations | |
Reasons for Christ's Temptations | |
Soteriology | |
Christ's Mediatorial Offices | p. 675 |
Some Characteristics of Christ as Mediator | |
Threefold Office | |
Christ's Prophetic Office | |
Christ's Priestly Office | |
Vicarious Atonement | p. 690 |
Atonement as Substitutionary | |
Atonement as Suffering and Forgiveness as Its Result | |
Atonement as Objective | |
Atonement as Subjective | |
Christ's Sufferings as Penal Substitution | |
Christ's Active and Passive Obedience | |
Atonement and Its Necessity in Relation to Divine Justice | |
Atonement in Its Relation to Divine Mercy | |
Possibility of Substitution | |
Extent of the Atonement | |
Universal Offer of the Atonement | |
Regeneration | p. 761 |
Various Uses of the Term Regeneration | |
Characteristics of Regeneration | |
Man's Agency in Regeneration | |
Conversion | p. 787 |
Justification | p. 793 |
Preliminary Considerations | |
Justification: Its Characteristics and Results | |
Sanctification | p. 803 |
Means of Grace | p. 809 |
Preliminary Considerations | |
Lord's Supper | |
Baptism | |
Eschatology | |
Intermediate or Disembodied State | p. 831 |
Summary of the Doctrine | |
Pagan Influences on the Doctrine of Hades | |
Christ's Alleged Descent into Hell | |
Scriptural View of the Intermediate State | |
Meaning of the Word Sheol | |
Christ's Second Advent | p. 863 |
Resurrection | p. 867 |
Historical Considerations | |
Scriptural Teaching on the Resurrection | |
Final Judgment | p. 878 |
Heaven | p. 882 |
Hell | p. 884 |
History of the Doctrine | |
Biblical Argument | |
Rational Argument | |
Bibliography | p. 941 |
Technical Terminology | p. 951 |
Biographical Entries | p. 963 |
General Index | p. 971 |
Scripture Index | p. 983 |
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