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Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3)

Augustus Hopkins Strong · Public domain text

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Author
Augustus Hopkins Strong (1836–1921)
Language
English
Subjects
Theology, Doctrinal, Baptists › Doctrines
Length
318,331 words · about 22 h 18 min
Sections
125 reader sections · Table of contents
Contents (125)
  1. Opening about 5 min
  2. IV. The Works Of God; Or The Execution Of The Decrees under 1 min
  3. I. Definition Of Creation about 9 min
  4. II. Proof of the Doctrine of Creation about 2 min
  5. 1. Direct Scripture Statements about 10 min
  6. 2. Indirect evidence from Scripture about 1 min
  7. III. Theories which oppose Creation about 17 min
  8. 2. Emanation about 10 min
  9. 3. Creation from eternity about 9 min
  10. 4. Spontaneous generation about 6 min
  11. IV. The Mosaic Account of Creation about 9 min
  12. 2. Its proper interpretation about 11 min
  13. V. God’s End in Creation about 1 min
  14. 1. The testimony of Scripture about 4 min
  15. 2. The testimony of reason about 13 min
  16. VI. Relation of the Doctrine of Creation to other Doctrines about 6 min
  17. 2. To the wisdom and free-will of God about 5 min
  18. 3. To Christ as the Revealer of God about 7 min
  19. 4. To Providence and Redemption about 2 min
  20. 5. To the Observance of the Sabbath about 9 min
  21. Section II.—Preservation about 3 min
  22. II. Proof of the Doctrine of Preservation about 2 min
  23. 2. From Reason about 6 min
  24. III. Theories which virtually deny the doctrine of Preservation about 4 min
  25. 2. Continuous Creation about 8 min
  26. IV. Remarks upon the Divine Concurrence about 3 min
  27. Section III.—Providence about 5 min
  28. II. Proof of the Doctrine of Providence about 17 min
  29. 2. Rational proof about 5 min
  30. III. Theories opposing the Doctrine of Providence about 2 min
  31. 2. Casualism about 2 min
  32. 3. Theory of a merely general providence about 10 min
  33. IV. Relations of the Doctrine of Providence about 4 min
  34. 2. To prayer and its answer about 20 min
  35. 3. To Christian activity about 9 min
  36. 4. To the evil acts of free agents about 5 min
  37. Section IV.—Good And Evil Angels about 5 min
  38. I. Scripture Statements and Imitations about 9 min
  39. 2. As to their number and organization about 8 min
  40. 3. As to their moral character about 3 min
  41. 4. As to their employments about 11 min
  42. B. The employments of evil angels about 18 min
  43. II. Objections to the Doctrine of Angels about 3 min
  44. 2. To the doctrine of evil angels in particular about 7 min
  45. III. Practical uses of the Doctrine of Angels about 2 min
  46. B. Uses of the doctrine of evil angels about 4 min
  47. I. Preliminary about 38 min
  48. II. Unity of the Human Race about 4 min
  49. 1. The argument from history about 3 min
  50. 2. The argument from language about 5 min
  51. 3. The argument from psychology about 1 min
  52. 4. The argument from physiology about 9 min
  53. III. Essential Elements of Human Nature about 3 min
  54. 2. The Trichotomous Theory about 13 min
  55. IV. Origin of the Soul under 1 min
  56. 1. The Theory of Preëxistence about 10 min
  57. 2. The Creatian Theory about 8 min
  58. 3. The Traducian Theory about 14 min
  59. V. The Moral Nature of Man about 1 min
  60. 1. Conscience about 20 min
  61. 2. Will about 30 min
  62. II. The Original State Of Man about 2 min
  63. I. Essentials of Man’s Original State about 2 min
  64. 1. Natural likeness to God, or personality about 6 min
  65. 2. Moral likeness to God, or holiness about 6 min
  66. A. The image of God as including only personality about 13 min
  67. II. Incidents of Man’s Original State about 7 min
  68. 2. Concomitants of man’s possession of the divine image about 25 min
  69. III. Sin, Or Man’s State Of Apostasy under 1 min
  70. I. Law in General about 10 min
  71. II. The Law of God in Particular about 37 min
  72. III. Relation of the Law to the Grace of God about 7 min
  73. Section II.—Nature Of Sin about 10 min
  74. 1. Proof about 15 min
  75. 2. Inferences about 5 min
  76. II. The Essential Principle of Sin about 1 min
  77. 1. Sin as Sensuousness about 13 min
  78. 2. Sin as Finiteness about 13 min
  79. 3. Sin as Selfishness about 22 min
  80. Section III.—Universality Of Sin about 30 min
  81. Section IV.—Origin Of Sin In The Personal Act Of Adam about 6 min
  82. 2. The course of the temptation, and the resulting fall about 5 min
  83. 1. How could a holy being fall? about 10 min
  84. 2. How could God justly permit Satanic temptation? about 6 min
  85. III. Consequences of the Fall, so far as respects Adam about 9 min
  86. 2. Positive and formal exclusion from God’s presence about 1 min
  87. Section V.—Imputation Of Adam’s Sin To His Posterity about 12 min
  88. I. Theories of Imputation about 51 min
  89. 4. The Federal Theory, or Theory of Condemnation by Covenant about 52 min
  90. II.—Objections to the Augustinian Doctrine of Imputation about 26 min
  91. Section VI.—Consequences Of Sin To Adam’s Posterity under 1 min
  92. I. Depravity about 1 min
  93. 1. Depravity partial or total? about 8 min
  94. 2. Ability or inability? about 14 min
  95. II. Guilt about 12 min
  96. 2. Degrees of guilt about 14 min
  97. III. Penalty about 14 min
  98. 2. The actual penalty of sin about 14 min
  99. Section VII.—The Salvation Of Infants about 13 min
  100. I. Christology, Or The Redemption Wrought By Christ under 1 min
  101. I. Negative Preparation,—in the history of the heathen world about 5 min
  102. II. Positive Preparation,—in the history of Israel about 6 min
  103. Section II.—The Person Of Christ about 1 min
  104. I. Historical Survey of Views Respecting the Person of Christ about 13 min
  105. II. The two Natures of Christ,—their Reality and Integrity about 29 min
  106. 2. The Deity of Christ about 9 min
  107. III. The Union of the two Natures in one Person about 1 min
  108. 1. Proof of this Union about 8 min
  109. 2. Modern misrepresentations of this Union about 14 min
  110. 3. The real nature of this Union about 33 min
  111. Section III.—The Two States Of Christ about 10 min
  112. 2. The stages of Christ’s humiliation about 8 min
  113. II. The State of Exaltation about 1 min
  114. 2. The stages of Christ’s exaltation about 11 min
  115. Section IV.—The Offices Of Christ about 1 min
  116. I. The Prophetic Office of Christ about 3 min
  117. 2. The stages of Christ’s prophetic work about 6 min
  118. II. The Priestly Office of Christ about 11 min
  119. A. Scripture Methods of Representing the Atonement about 44 min
  120. C. Theories of the Atonement about 1 h 13 min
  121. 6th. The Ethical Theory of the Atonement about 53 min
  122. D. Objections to the Ethical Theory of the Atonement about 17 min
  123. E. The Extent of the Atonement about 7 min
  124. 2. Christ’s Intercessory Work about 6 min
  125. III. The Kingly Office of Christ about 5 min

The opening of I. Definition Of Creation

By creation we mean that free act of the triune God by which in the beginning for his own glory he made, without the use of preëxisting materials, the whole visible and invisible universe.

Creation is designed origination, by a transcendent and personal God, of that which itself is not God. The universe is related to God as our own volitions are related to ourselves. They are not ourselves, and we are greater than they. Creation is not simply the idea of God, or even the plan of God, but it is the idea externalized, the plan executed; in other words, it implied an exercise, not only of intellect, but also of will, and this will is not an instinctive and unconscious will, but a will that is personal and free. Such exercise of will seems to involve, not self-development, but self-limitation, on the part of God; the transformation of energy into force, and so a beginning of time, with its finite successions. But, whatever the relation of creation to time, creation makes the universe wholly dependent upon God, as its originator.

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