Systematic Theology A Compendium and Commonplace-Book Designed For The Use Of Theological Students By Augustus Hopkins Strong, D.D., LL.D. President and Professor of Biblical Theology in the Rochester Theological Seminary Revised and Enlarged In Three Volumes Volume 1 The Doctrine of God The Judson Press Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Seattle, Toronto 1907 CONTENTS Preface Part I. Prolegomena. Chapter I. Idea Of Theology. I. Definition of Theology. II. Aim of Theology. III. Possibility of Theology. 1. The existence of a God. 2. Man’s capacity for the knowledge of God 3. God’s revelation of himself to man. IV. Necessity of Theology. V. Relation of Theology to Religion. 1. Derivation. 2. False Conceptions. 3. Essential Idea. 4. Inferences. Chapter II. Material of Theology. I. Sources of Theology. 1. Scripture and Nature. 2. Scripture and Rationalism. 3. Scripture and Mysticism. 4. Scripture and Romanism. II. Limitations of Theology. III. Relations of Material to Progress in Theology. Chapter III. Method Of Theology. I. Requisites to the study of Theology. II. Divisions of Theology. III. History of Systematic Theology. IV. Order of Treatment in Systematic Theology. V. Text-Books in Theology. Part II. The Existence Of God. Chapter I. Origin Of Our Idea Of God’s Existence. I. First Truths in General. II. The Existence of God a first truth. 1. Its universality. 2. Its necessity. 3. Its logical independence and priority. III. Other Supposed Sources of our Idea of God’s Existence. IV. Contents of this Intuition. Chapter II. Corroborative Evidences Of God’s Existence. I. The Cosmological Argument, or Argument from Change in Nature. II. The Teleological Argument, or Argument from Order and Useful Collocation in Nature. III. The Anthropological Argument, or Argument from Man’s Mental and Moral Nature. IV. The Ontological Argument, or Argument from our Abstract and Necessary Ideas. Chapter III. Erroneous Explanations, And Conclusion. I. Materialism. II. Materialistic Idealism. III. Idealistic Pantheism. IV. Ethical Monism. Part III. The Scriptures A Revelation From God. Chapter I. Preliminary Considerations. I. Reasons _a priori_ for expecting a Revelation from God. II. Marks of the Revelation man may expect. III.