Abstract Of Systematic Theology - Softcover

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Dr. Boyce's Abstract occupies a place all its own in the field of systematic theology among American Baptists. He is the only work by an American Baptist writer who was a complete Calvinist as well as a total Landmark Baptist on church truths. If the reader is interested in Calvinistic theology, he can do no better than Boyce's Abstract of Systematic Theology. We feel that the chapter dealing with the atonement is the finest treatment of theological literature which has ever been issued by any theologian — Gill and Calvin not withstanding. The value of Boyce on the atonement over the other masters is that they lived when many of the so-called heresies were not then openly developed. Calvin lived and wrote before the heresy of Joseph Arminius while John Gill lived and wrote before the heresy of Andrew Fuller. Dr. Boyce presents the eight major theories and objects to them and answers their objections against the true doctrine of the atonement. Dr. Boyce's work will give many Baptists the opportunity of receiving the lectures of the outstanding Baptist mind of American Baptist history. His great advances in the Baptist cause in the south consisted in the formation of the Southern Baptist Seminary, now located at Louisville, Kentucky. Up to that time the Baptists of the South had no educational units for their ministers to attend. And the present day ideas and theories taught in such places do not represent the doctrines and ideas of Dr. Boyce. He was a solid Baptist and formed the Seminary to educate our American Baptists in the historic principles of the past. Dr. Boyce's own words explained that his intentions were developed because: historians who have professed to write the history of the church have either utterly ignored the presence of those of our faith, or classed them among fanatics and heretics; or, if forced to acknowledge the prevalence of our principles and practice among the earliest churches, have adopted such false theories as to church power and the development and growth of the truth and principles of Scripture, that by all, save their most discerning readers, our pretentions to an early origin and a continuous existence have been rejected.

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