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ENDORSEMENT<\/h2>\n

‘R.L. Dabney was the most conspicuous figure and the leading theological guide of the Southern Presbyterian Church, the most prolific theological writer that Church has as yet produced, and for a period of over forty years one of the most distinguished and probably the most impressive teacher of its candidates for the ministry. As a preacher, as a teacher and as a writer equally he achieved greatness, and in the counsels of the State and of the Church alike he was a factor of importance. In the wider theological history of the country and of the epoch he finds a worthy place as one of the younger members of a remarkable company of theologians to whose lot it fell to reassert and reorganize the historical faith of the Reformed Churches in the face of the theological ferment which marked the earlier years of the Nineteenth Century.’ — B.B. WARFIELD<\/p>\n

‘Hodge gives an excellent, general statement of the Reformed Faith, yet Dabney adds something beyond the general treatment of most subjects. When his method of teaching is recalled, of sending his students to the standard texts on theology (including Hodge), and then adding his own observations on each doctrine in the class from which his “Theology” was derived, it is to be expected that his work would have a certain freshness to it, and this is just what is found. He begot in his men something akin to his own vigor and strength, his love of truth and of God.’ — MORTON H. SMITH<\/p>\n

Book Description<\/h2>\n

Although the Southern Presbyterian Church of the last century produced many volumes of enduring spiritual importance, it was only this work which came ‘nearest to a complete text of Systematic Theology’. For its preparation Robert L. Dabney, ‘the best teacher of theology in the United States, if not in the world’ (A.A. Hodge), was certainly suited. While his exposition and vindication of credal Christianity is akin to that of other reformed authors, he has a literary force and ability to stimulate thought which is distinctive. In his concern to see the truth understood\u00a0and<\/em> lived, in his wrestling with hard points and his mastery of detail, Dabney is second-to-none.\u00a0The fact that his Systematic Theology<\/em>, first published in 1871, is now in its ninth edition is proof in itself that the volume is not superfluous.<\/p>\n

His biographer, Thomas Cary Johnson, wrote of him: ‘He believed that “feeling is the temperature of thought” and was not ashamed to be seen to feel for the truth. Hence the truth he taught burnt in on the student, and made an indelible impression. He begot in is men something akin to his own vigor and strength, his love of truth and of God’.<\/p>\n

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Lecture<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\n\u00a0Preface: and Existence of God<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\n\u00a0Existence of God, (continued)<\/td>\n15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\n\u00a0Evolution<\/td>\n26<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\n\u00a0Divine Attributes<\/td>\n38<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\n\u00a0Divine Attributes, (continued)<\/td>\n46<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\n\u00a0Materialism<\/td>\n55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\n\u00a0Immortality of the Soul and Dejects of Natural Religion<\/td>\n64<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\n\u00a0Sources of our Thinking<\/td>\n78<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\n\u00a0Sources of our Thinking, (continued)<\/td>\n94<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\n\u00a0Ethical Theories (continued)<\/td>\n110<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\n\u00a0Free Agency and the Will<\/td>\n119<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\n\u00a0Responsibility and Province of Reason<\/td>\n133<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\n\u00a0Revealed Theology God and His Attributes<\/td>\n144<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\n\u00a0Divine Attributes, (continued)<\/td>\n154<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\n\u00a0God\u2019s Moral Attributes<\/td>\n164<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/td>\n\u00a0The Trinity<\/td>\n174<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17<\/td>\n\u00a0Divinity of Christ,<\/td>\n182<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/td>\n\u00a0Divinity of the Holy Ghost and of the Son<\/td>\n193<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19<\/td>\n\u00a0Personal Distinctions in the Trinity<\/td>\n202<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20<\/td>\n\u00a0Decrees of God<\/td>\n211<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21<\/td>\n\u00a0Predestination<\/td>\n223<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22<\/td>\n\u00a0Predestination, (concluded)<\/td>\n235<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23<\/td>\n\u00a0Creation<\/td>\n247<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n\u00a0Appendix – Geologic Theories and Chronology<\/td>\n256<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24<\/td>\n\u00a0Angels<\/td>\n264<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25<\/td>\n\u00a0Providence<\/td>\n276<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26<\/td>\n\u00a0 Man’s Estate of Holiness, and the Covenant of Works<\/td>\n292<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27<\/td>\n\u00a0The Fall, and Original Sin<\/td>\n306<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28<\/td>\n\u00a0Original Sin, (continued)<\/td>\n321<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29<\/td>\n\u00a0 Original Sin, (concluded)<\/td>\n332<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30<\/td>\n\u00a0The Decalogue<\/td>\n351<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
31<\/td>\n\u00a0The First Table – (1st, 2nd and 3rd Commandments)<\/td>\n358<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
32<\/td>\n\u00a0First Table – (4th Commandment)<\/td>\n366<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
33<\/td>\n\u00a0Second Table – (5th and 6th Commandments)<\/td>\n398<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
34<\/td>\n\u00a0Second Table – (7th and 8th Commandments)<\/td>\n406<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
35<\/td>\n\u00a0Second Table – (9th and 10th Commandments)<\/td>\n419<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
36<\/td>\n\u00a0The Covenant of Grace<\/td>\n429<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
37<\/td>\n\u00a0Covenant of Grace, (continued)<\/td>\n440<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
38<\/td>\n\u00a0Covenant of Grace, (concluded)<\/td>\n452<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
39<\/td>\n\u00a0Mediator of the Covenant of Grace<\/td>\n464<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
40<\/td>\n\u00a0Mediator, (continued)<\/td>\n477<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
41<\/td>\n\u00a0Mediator, (concluded)<\/td>\n485<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
42<\/td>\n\u00a0Nature of Christ’s Sacrifice<\/td>\n500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
43<\/td>\n\u00a0Nature of Christ’s Sacrifice, (continued)<\/td>\n515<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
44<\/td>\n\u00a0Results of Christ’s Sacrifice, as to God’s Glory and other Worlds<\/td>\n536<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
45<\/td>\n\u00a0Christ’s Humiliation and Exaltation<\/td>\n546<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
46<\/td>\n\u00a0Effectual Calling<\/td>\n553<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
47<\/td>\n\u00a0Effectual Calling, (continued)<\/td>\n560<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
48<\/td>\n\u00a0Arminian Theory of Redemption<\/td>\n579<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
49<\/td>\n\u00a0Arminian Theory of Redemption, (continued)<\/td>\n859<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
50<\/td>\n\u00a0Faith<\/td>\n600<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
51<\/td>\n\u00a0Union to Christ<\/td>\n612<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
52<\/td>\n\u00a0 Justification<\/td>\n618<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
53<\/td>\n\u00a0 Justification, (continued)<\/td>\n628<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
54<\/td>\n\u00a0 Justification, (concluded)<\/td>\n640<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
55<\/td>\n\u00a0Repentance<\/td>\n651<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
56<\/td>\n\u00a0Sanctification, and Good Works<\/td>\n660<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
57<\/td>\n\u00a0Sanctification, and Good Works, (continued)<\/td>\n674<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
58<\/td>\n\u00a0Perseverance of the Saints<\/td>\n687<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
59<\/td>\n\u00a0Assurance of Grace and Salvation:<\/td>\n698<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
60<\/td>\n\u00a0Prayer<\/td>\n713<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
61<\/td>\n\u00a0The Sacraments<\/td>\n726<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
62<\/td>\n\u00a0The Sacraments, (continued)<\/td>\n737<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n\u00a0Appendix – Apostolic Succession and Sacramental Grace shown to be a Blunder<\/td>\n748<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
63<\/td>\n\u00a0Baptism<\/td>\n758<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
64<\/td>\n\u00a0Baptism – the mode<\/td>\n768<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
65<\/td>\n\u00a0Subjects of Baptism<\/td>\n777<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
66<\/td>\n\u00a0Subjects of Baptism, (concluded)<\/td>\n789<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
67<\/td>\n\u00a0The Lord’s Supper<\/td>\n800<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
68<\/td>\n\u00a0The Lord’s Supper, (concluded)<\/td>\n809<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
69<\/td>\n\u00a0Death of Believers<\/td>\n817<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
70<\/td>\n\u00a0The Resurrection<\/td>\n829<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
71<\/td>\n\u00a0General Judgment and Eternal Life<\/td>\n842<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
72<\/td>\n\u00a0Nature and Duration of Hell – Torments<\/td>\n852<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
73<\/td>\n\u00a0The Civil Magistrate<\/td>\n862<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
74<\/td>\n\u00a0Religious Liberty and Church and State<\/td>\n873<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Review<\/h2>\n