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All Blog Posts With Tag: systematic theology
Charles Hodge on Hylozoism and Panentheism (July 26, 2012)
Charles Hodge
Some Panentheists believe that the world is God's body, and this is known as Panpsychism meaning all-soul, or everything exists is the body or soul of God. Panentheism is different than Pantheism, in that it still maintains a distinction between God and Creation. In Pantheism, there is an identity between […]
Abraham Kuyper on Ectypal Knowledge (May 25, 2012)
Abraham Kuyper in his Encyclopedia of Sacred Theology considers the widely discussed question "Is theology a science?" and "In What sense is theology a science?" Kuyper emphasizes through this book the necessity of palingenesia (i.e. regeneration) to have a right understanding of Christianity. In the following long quotation, Kuyper explains that a general comparison […]
Herman Bavinck on Anselm’s Scholasticism. (April 27, 2012)
Herman Bavinck (1854 - 1921) wrote the arguably best Reformed Systematic Theologies: the four volume work, Reformed Dogmatics. He was a Dutch Reformed Theologian and in the Prolegomena to Reformed Dogmatics, he wrote a very helpful critique of Anselm that is a good conclusion to my Anselm posts:
[46] "Scholasticism passed through three […]
Martin Buber’s I and Thou (October 23, 2011)
Martin Buber was a Jewish philosopher that wrote a very famous poetic psychology book titled: Ich und Du (I and Thou). It's a short book, around 150 pages that was published in 1923. It's a difficult read, especially since its German poetry translated ...
Francis Turretin’s Institutes of Elenctic Theology (September 10, 2011)
Francis Turretin (1623–1687) or François Turretini was a Reformed Theologian who taught in Calvin's academy in Geneva a couple generations after John Calvin had died. He is most famous for his timeless and massive systematic theology titled: ...
