Syllabus and Notes of the Course of Systematic and Polemic Theology
Overview
When professor Robert Lewis Dabney stopped lecturing at the collegiate level, he combined his knowledge and lectures into Syllabus and Notes on the Course of Systematic and Polemic Theology. Comprised of seventy-four lectures, this book is a gold mine of theological insights. It was later published unchanged under the two titles Lectures in Systematic Theology and Systematic Theology.
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- Includes 74 lectures along with notes
- Provides theological insight
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Top Highlights
“we still find the theory unverified, and incapable of verification” (Page 31)
“By God’s decretive will, we mean that will by which He foreordains whatever comes to pass. By His preceptive, that by which He enjoins on creatures what is right and proper for them to do. The decretive we also call His secret will: because it is for the most part (except as disclosed in some predictions and the effectuation) retained in His own breast. His preceptive we call His revealed will, because it is published to man for his guidance.” (Page 161)
“The first truth of theology is the existence of God.” (Page 7)
“This seems, then, to be the candid conclusion: that there is no passage in the Bible which asserts an intention to apply redemption to any others than the elect, on the part of God and Christ; but that there are passages which imply that Christ died for all sinners in some sense, as Dr. Ch. Hodge has so expressly admitted. Certainly the expiation made by Christ is so related to all, irrespective of election, that God can sincerely invite all to enjoy its benefits, that every soul in the world who desires salvation is warranted to appropriate it; and that even a Judas, had he come in earnest, would not have been cast out.” (Page 527)
“The Protestants, with Turrettin, usually say it was unbelief; because pride could not be naturally suggested to the creature’s soul, unless unbelief had gone before to obliterate his recollection of his proper relations to an infinite God; because belief of the mind usually dictates feeling and action in the will; because the temptation seems first aimed (Gen. 3:1) to produce unbelief, through the creature’s heedlessness; and because the initial element of error must have been in the understanding, the will being hitherto holy.” (Page 310)
[Robert Lewis Dabney is] 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.
- Title: Syllabus and Notes of the Course of Systematic and Polemic Theology
- Author: Robert Lewis Dabney
- Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Company
- Publication Date: 1878
- Pages: 908
- Resource Type: Lectures
- Topic: Theology
Robert Lewis Dabney (March 5, 1820–January 3, 1898) was an American Christian theologian, a Southern Presbyterian pastor, and Confederate Army chaplain. He was also chief of staff and biographer to Stonewall Jackson. His biography of Jackson remains in print today. Dabney and James Henley Thornwell were two of Southern Presbyterianism’s most influential scholars. They were both Calvinist, Old School Presbyterians, and social conservatives.