Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3)Strong, Augustus Hopkins
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Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3)
Strong, Augustus Hopkins
Baptists -- Doctrines; Theology, Doctrinal
(_a_) The Analytical method of Calixtus begins with the assumed end of all
things, blessedness, and thence passes to the means by which it is
secured. (_b_) The Trinitarian method of Leydecker and Martensen regards
Christian doctrine as a manifestation successively of the Father, Son and
Holy Spirit. (_c_) The Federal method of Cocceius, Witsius, and Boston
treats theology under the two covenants. (_d_) The Anthropological method
of Chalmers and Rothe; the former beginning with the Disease of Man and
passing to the Remedy; the latter dividing his Dogmatik into the
Consciousness of Sin and the Consciousness of Redemption. (_e_) The
Christological method of Hase, Thomasius and Andrew Fuller treats of God,
man, and sin, as presuppositions of the person and work of Christ. Mention
may also be made of (_f_) The Historical method, followed by Ursinus, and
adopted in Jonathan Edwards’s History of Redemption; and (_g_) The
Allegorical method of Dannhauer, in which man is described as a wanderer,
life as a road, the Holy Spirit as a light, the church as a candlestick,
God as the end, and heaven as the home; so Bunyan’s Holy War, and Howe’s
Living Temple.
See Calixtus, Epitome Theologiæ; Leydecker, De Œconomia trium
Personarum in Negotio Salutis humanæ; Martensen (1808-1884),
Christian Dogmatics; Cocceius, Summa Theologiæ, and Summa Doctrinæ
de Fœdere et Testamento Dei, in Works, vol. vi; Witsius, The
Economy of the Covenants; Boston, A Complete Body of Divinity (in
Works, vol. 1 and 2), Questions in Divinity (vol. 6), Human Nature
in its Fourfold State (vol. 8); Chalmers, Institutes of Theology;
Rothe (1799-1867), Dogmatik, and Theologische Ethik; Hase
(1800-1890), Evangelische Dogmatik; Thomasius (1802-1875), Christi
Person und Werk; Fuller, Gospel Worthy of all Acceptation (in
Works, 2:328-416), and Letters on Systematic Divinity (1:684-711);
Ursinus (1534-1583), Loci Theologici (in Works, 1:426-909);
Dannhauer (1603-1666) Hodosophia Christiana, seu Theologia
Positiva in Methodum redacta. Jonathan Edwards’s so-called History
of Redemption was in reality a system of theology in historical
form. It “was to begin and end with eternity, all great events and
epochs in time being viewed ‘sub specie eternitatis.’ The three
worlds—heaven, earth and hell—were to be the scenes of this grand
drama. It was to include the topics of theology as living factors,
each in its own place,” and all forming a complete and harmonious
whole; see Allen, Jonathan Edwards, 379, 380.
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