Systematic theology is any study that answers the question, "What does the whole Bible teach us today?" about any given topic.
Wayne Grudem (Systematic Theology, pg. 13)
"Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though the philosophers sometimes utter excellent sayings, yet they have nothing but what is short-lived, and even mixed up with wicked and erroneous sentiments."
~ John Calvin (1509 – 1564)
We need theology for the sake of people. Theology is the application of the Word by persons to the world and all areas of human life.
John Frame (Salvation Belongs to the Lord, pg. 72)
Theology...the church's reflection on God's performative action in word and deed and its own participation in the drama of redemption.
Michael Horton (Covenant and Eschatology, pg. 4)
Theology is the intellectual, relational and spiritual act of knowing God through the disciplined and communal practice of understanding and applying His word to all areas of life.
A. Orendorff
Every Christian should be a theologian.
John Blanchard
| Title |
Notes |
A Body of Divinity  |
Thomas Watson |
| The Precious Things of God (Online Book) |
Octavius Winslow, 1859 |
| Institutes of the Christian Religion |
John Calvin |
| Institutes of the Christian Religion |
John Calvin |
| Outlines of Theology (.pdf) |
A.A. Hodge |
| Christian's Reasonable Service (.pdf) |
Wilhelmus a Brakel - 5.8MB (2160 pages) |
| Summary of Christian Doctrine |
Louis Berkhof |
| Systematic Theology (.pdf) |
Charles Hodge |
| The Justification of Theology as an Intellectual Discipline |
Robert L. Reymond |
| The Christian's Reasonable Service Vol. 1 (.pdf) |
Wilhelmus a Brakel |
| The Christian's Reasonable Service Vol. 2 (.pdf) |
Wilhelmus a Brakel |
| Biblical Doctrine: An Overview (.pdf) |
ESV Study Bible |
| The Christian's Reasonable Service Vol. 3 (.pdf) |
Wilhelmus ŕ Brakel |
| The Christian's Reasonable Service Vol. 4 (.pdf) |
Wilhelmus ŕ Brakel |
| Systematic Theology (.pdf) |
John Brown (of Haddington) 1722-1787 |
| Outlines of Systematic Theology Volume 2 (34 MB .pdf) |
Augustus Hopkins Strong |
| Systematic Theology |
R.L. Dabney |
| Outlines of Systematic Theology Volume 1 (.pdf) |
Augustus Hopkins Strong |
| Westminster Shorter Catechism Project |
Amazing site offering numerous links to Puritan and contemporary commentary on nearly every question of the Catechism. |
| Outlines of Systematic Theology Volume 3 (30 MB .pdf) |
Augustus Hopkins Strong, 1836-1921 |
| The Nature and Function of Theology |
David F. Wells |
| A Body of Doctrinal Divinity |
John Gill |
| Theses Theologicae |
R. Scott Clark |
| Symphonic Theology |
Vern S. Poythress |
| The Right of Systematic Theology |
Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield with intro by Rev. Professor James Orr, D.D. |
| Studies in Theology (.pdf) |
B. B. Warfield |
| Who needs Systematic Theology When We Have the Bible? |
Michael S. Horton, Ph.D. |
| A Foundation for Faith: An Introductory Study of Systematic Theology (.pdf) |
Stanford E. Murrell, Th.D. |
| Systematic Theology as a Biblical Discipline |
Michael Williams (pdf) |
| Using and Being Used: Scripture and Systematic Theology |
Colin Gunton |
| Systematic Theology (.pdf) |
Augustus Hopkins Strong, from a committed, reformed, Baptist perspective |
| Survey of Theology |
Valley Bible Church |
| Truth's Victory Over Error |
David Dickson |
| Abstract of Systematic Theology |
James P. Boyce |
| Manual of Theology |
J.L. Dagg |
| The Second Helvetic Confession with Commentary |
Chuck Baynard |
| A Systematic Study of Bible Doctrine (.pdf) |
Thomas Paul Simmons |
| Bibliology (.pdf) |
Gary E. Gilley |
| Systematic theology: an introduction to biblical doctrine |
Wayne A. Grudem |
| Systematic Theology |
Louis Berkhof |
| Angelology (.pdf) |
Gary E. Gilley |
| Ecclesiology (.pdf) |
Gary E. Gilley |
| The Usefulness of Creeds |
Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr. |
| Lectures on Theology (Vol 1) |
John Dick |
| Systematic Theology (13-Part Seminar) |
Capitol Hill Baptist Church |
| Bible Doctrine |
Wayne Grudem |
| Anthropology (.pdf) |
Gary E. Gilley |
| The Table-Talk of Martin Luther (.pdf) |
Full-text Online Book |
| Basic Christian Doctrine |
Matt Slick |
| Systematic Theology |
E.C. Bragg (audio) |
| The Summa Theologica |
Thomas Aquinas |
| All Systems Go: Why we shouldn't devalue systematic theology |
Collin Hansen |
| Systematic Theology (.pdf) |
R. L. Dabney |
| Read Calvin's Institutes in a Year (.pdf) |
John Calvin |
| Theology for the People |
William S. Plumer, 1875 |
| Theology for Everyman |
John H. Gerstner |
| Van Til's Introduction to Systematic Theology |
Charles R. Biggs (.doc) |
| Confession of the Christian Religion |
Jerome Zanchi |
| Herman Bavinck’s Doctrine of God |
Charles R. Biggs |
| Studies in Systematic Theology |
John Stevenson |
| Pneumatology |
Gary E. Gilley |
| Soteriology |
Gary E. Gilley |
| Theology Proper |
Gary E. Gilley |
| A Short History of Creeds and Confessions |
A.A. Hodge |
| Bible Doctrine for the Family |
Chuck Baynard |
| Lectures on Theology (Vol 2) |
John Dick |
| Ecological “Blind Spots” in the Structure and Content of Recent Evangelical Systematic Theologies |
John Jefferson Davis - Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Jun 2000) |
| The Christian Faith in the Modern World |
Dr. J. Gresham Machen |
| Charles Hodge on the System of Doctrine |
Charles hodge |
| The Decades of Heinrich Bullinger (Vol. 1) |
Heinrich Bullinger |
| The Decades of Heinrich Bullinger (Vol. 2) |
Heinrich Bullinger |
| The Decades of Heinrich Bullinger (Vol. 3) |
Heinrich Bullinger |
| The Decades of Heinrich Bullinger (Vol. 4) |
Heinrich Bullinger |
| Systematic Theology and Biblical Theology |
Richard B. Gaffin, Jr. |
| Outline of Systematic Theology (.pdf) |
Dr. Greg Bahnsen |
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