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Systematic Theology: The Complete Three Volumes

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So it would be a mistake to think that Hodge believes that the Bible is nothing but sets of facts and that all theological reasoning is ‘bottom up’, as Vanhoozer thinks. These traits are said to reveal him as expressing the mentality of the Enlightenment, 'the assumption of modernity', in his pursuit of objectivity, a mentality perhaps fostered by the influence upon him of one of the most notable figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Thomas Reid, and perhaps by the dreaded ‘Reformed Scholasticism’. Such mysticism is to be distinguished from the internal testimony of the Holy Spirit in his role as illuminator of the Scriptural truths. Additional publications on the relationship between Christianity and science, and a collection of essays delivered at the Sabbath Afternoon Conferences (published by the Trust as Princeton Sermons), served to further confirm the breadth of his academic competency and the depth of his Christian piety.

For example, he might well have endorsed the view that every doctrinal hypthesis must be falsifiable by Scriptural data. The textbook that Alexander used, and then Hodge used, was Francis Turretin's Systematic Theology, three volumes. For anything pretending to supplant Dogmatics there is no place in the circle of Christian Theology….

God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself' is (Hodge would say), a fact, a true proposition, a truth. If by a miracle we could introduce him into contemporary discussions we may imagine him having a word or two to say about the subjectivizing and sceptical consequences of viewing Scripture through the lens of post modernity.

With only 5 to 10 minutes a day, you could read through an entire systematic theology in the course of a year. So long, however, as the binding authority of Scripture is acknowledged, the temptation is very strong, to press the facts of the Bible into accordance with our preconceived theories.Beeke and Jones go through the traditional loci explaining what major Puritan thinkers taught on each topic. To set the context of this biography, it is important to realize how Hodge has become a whipping boy for contemporary theologians. Following his father’s untimely death a few years after he was born, Charles and his brother were raised by their godly widowed mother.

In a Christian view of Scripture ‘God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself’ is consistent with ‘God created the heavens and the earth’ and ‘Our God is a consuming fire’, and it is the task of the systematic theologian, as far as he is able, to display this consistency. positioned in Scripture itself as the foundation of theology ( principium theologiae) and from there develop dogmas. Contrary to what Vanhoozer claims, then, for Hodge it matters a very great deal who is doing the observing. Hodge sold her home there in Philadelphia, took their remaining assets, and bought a large home in Princeton, and decided to take in boarders as a way to have income; and off Charles went to Princeton. As we have noted, Hodge is not describing what actually goes on in carrying forward the science of theology, but giving his views on what ought to happen.Kevin DeYoung (PhD, University of Leicester) is senior pastor of Christ Covenant Church (PCA) in Matthews, North Carolina, and associate professor of systematic theology at Reformed Theological Seminary (Charlotte). From this it was inferred by some that He could not have had a finite intelligence, but that the Logos was clothed in Him with a human body with its animal life. He should remember that his business is not to set forth his system of truth (that is of no account), but to ascertain and exhibit what is God's system, which is a matter of the greatest moment.

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