Systematic Theology
J. Oliver Buswell’s Timely Warning From the Past
Recently, I was reminded of some sound admonitions I had read many years ago from J. Oliver Buswell in his 1962-1963 work entitled A Systematic Theology of the Christian Religion. I was reminded of how prescient he was in anticipating some theological issues we are facing now, over sixty years later, and I thought it…
The First Reformed Baptist Theology
Free Grace Press is making A Body of Doctrinal and Practical Divinity from 1657, by Robert Purnell, available now for a discounted price. It appears to be the first Reformed Baptist systematic theology work ever written. This surprised me, because I thought that distinction belonged to John Gill, who actually wrote his theology 100 years…
Reformed Thomists?
In the video above, James White does a good job discussing the growing number of so-called “Reformed Thomists” and the dangers of Thomism. It is well worth taking time to watch.
James White on the Divine Simplicity of God
In this video, James offers some helpful insights and cautions when we speak about such theological matters.
Toward a Proper Understanding of the Lord’s Supper as a Visible Word
Introduction In my own past study of the Lord’s Supper, some twenty six years ago now, I spent some time wrestling with John Calvin’s understanding of the Lord’s Supper, especially as he addressed the matter in his Institutes of the Christian Religion, and it started me thinking in a different way about it than I…
New Edition of He Died for Me by Jeff Johnson
Jeff Johnson has released a new edition of his book, He Died For Me, which is now available in paperback. He describes the book as essentially about an “in-house debate among Calvinists,” and that it is. But I think even non-Calvinists would learn a great deal from this book. It is an excellent introduction to…
Review of Greg Nichols’ Lectures in Systematic Theology, Vol. 2
I love systematic theology. In fact, I have a whole bookshelf dedicated to systematic theology. Some of my favorites are De Doctrina Christiana by Augustine and Peter Lombard’s Sentences. I can hardly resist them. Aquinas, Barth, Bavinck, Berkhof, Brakel, Brown, Dabney, Dagg, Erickson, Frame, Gill, Hodge, Horton, Turretin, Reymond, Vos, Warfield, and the like fill…
A Portrait of God by Daniel Chamberlin
Daniel Chamberlin’s book A Portrait of God is now available at Free Grace Press. Here is the description of the book on the website: Stephen Charnock’s Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God is a classic, but is over 500 pages. Daniel Chamberlin has done the church a service by summarizing the essential thoughts…
Download A. H. Strong’s Systematic Theology For Free
For any interested readers, here is a link to download or read online Augustus Hopkins Strong’s Systematic Theology: A Compendium Designed for the Use of Theological Students for free. For those of you not familiar with A. H. Strong, here is a description from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (where the same work is also…
Simplicity and Trinity
Note: The following is taken from chapter 20 of the upcoming book The Absurdity of Unbelief, which may be pre-ordered here. It is true that God is a simple being that is not composed of non-divineparts. For instance, if the attribute of power was not essential to God’s nature, then power would cease to be divine, which…