Systematic Theology: The Complete Three Volumes

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Such mysticism is to be distinguished from the internal testimony of the Holy Spirit in his role as illuminator of the Scriptural truths. positioned in Scripture itself as the foundation of theology ( principium theologiae) and from there develop dogmas. It uses the individual data furnished by exegesis, in a word, not crudely, not independently for itself, but only after these data have been worked up into Biblical Theology and have received from it their final coloring and subtlest shades of meaning - in other words, only in their true sense, and after Exegetics has said its last word upon them.

In other words, unlike pebbles on a beach, the facts of Scripture, expressed in the sentences and clauses of the Bible, have semantic and syntactic meaning. At the encouragement of Archibald Alexander, he enrolled at Princeton Theological Seminary, graduating with the class of 1819. Whether asserting such things 'runs the risk of neglecting the larger canonical context and literary form of the biblical "facts", perhaps the inevitable result of biblical empiricism', as Vanhoozer claims, (p. The magnum opus of one of America's most prominent theologians offers an in-depth exploration of theology, anthropology, soteriology, and eschatology.Hodge is not proposing an experimental or verificationist procedure which will test the claims of Scripture by reference to data outside or apart from Scripture, but the very reverse of this.

So, I heartily recommend to you this three-volume work from the 1870s, Hodge's Systematic Theology, written by the second professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, Charles Hodge.In the course of his advocacy of theology as involving ' theodramatic triangulation' between Scripture, church and world, Professor Vanhoozer has this to say about Hodge. So of course, as is made obvious by a cursory reading of the material, Hodge insists on the importance of taking into account the situation of the interpreter. By the 1860s, early 1870s, all these students coming to Princeton did not know Latin, and so Hodge very reluctantly wrote a new Systematic Theology that would be in English for all these students who struggled with their Latin.