by Rev. James Petigru Boyce, D. D., LL. D.,
Joseph-Emerson-Brown Professor of Systematic Theology
in The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
First published in 1887
To the
HON. JOSEPH E. BROWN,
President of the
Board of Trustees of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary,
this book is respectfully dedicated, as a token of high personal esteem, and in recognition of his deep interest in the cause of education, and especially of the theological education of the Christian ministry; as evinced, among other generous gifts, by his endowment in The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary of the Chair of Systematic Theology, with which the author is officially
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CONTENTS
Chapter 1: THE SCIENCE OF THEOLOGY.
Chapter 3: REASON AND REVELATION.
Chapter 5: SPIRITUALITY OF GOD.
Chapter 7: THE IMMUTABILITY OF GOD.
Chapter 9: THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD.
Chapter 10: HOLINESS, GOODNESS, LOVE AND TRUTH.
Chapter 13: THE DECREES OF GOD
Chapter 15: PERSONAL RELATIONS IN TRINITY.
Chapter 16: OUTWARD RELATIONS OF THE TRINITY
Chapter 18: CREATION OF ANGELS
Chapter 23: THE EFFECTS OF THE SIN OF ADAM.
Chapter 24: THE HEADSHIP OF ADAM.
Chapter 25: CHRIST IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
Chapter 26: THE PERSON OF CHRIST.
Chapter 27: THE OFFICES OF CHRIST.
Chapter 28: THE ATONEMENT OF CHRIST.
Chapter 31: OUTWARD AND EFFECTUAL CALLING.
Chapter 32: REGENERATION AND CONVERSION.
Chapter 38: FINAL PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS.
Chapter 39: DEATH AND THE SOUL’S IMMORTALITY.
Chapter 40: CHRIST’S SECOND COMING, AND THE RESURRECTION.
Chapter 41: THE FINAL JUDGEMENT.
Chapter 42: THE FINAL STATES OF THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED.
