Systematic Theology

"pt. 1. Introduction (Prolegomena). Introduction -- God : the metaphysical precondition -- Miracles : the supernatural precondition -- Revelation : the revelational precondition -- Logic : the semantical precondition -- Truth : the epistemological precondition -- Exclusivism : the oppositional precondition -- Language : the linguistic precondition -- Interpretation : the hermeneutical precondition -- Historiography : the historical precondition -- Method : the methodological precondition -- pt. 2. Bible (Bibliology). Biblical. The origin and inspiration of the Bible -- The divine nature of the Bible -- The human nature of the Bible -- Jesus and the Bible -- Historical. Church fathers on the Bible -- The historical church on the Bible -- The history of destructive biblical criticism -- Liberalism on the Bible -- Neo-orthodoxy on the Bible -- Neo-evangelicals on the Bible -- Evangelicals on the Bible -- Fundamentalism on the Bible -- Theological. The historicity of the Old Testament -- The historicity of the New Testament -- The inerrancy of the Bible -- The canonicity of the Bible -- Summary of the evidence for the Bible -- Appendices : 1. Objections against theistic arguments -- 2. Do historical facts speak for themselves?"

"Introduction -- God's pure actuality and simplicity -- God's aseity and necessity -- God's immutability and eternality -- God's impassibility and infinity -- God's immateriality and immensity -- God's omnipotence and omnipresence -- God's omniscience -- God's wisdom and light -- God's majesty, beauty, and ineffability -- God's life and immortality -- God's unity and trinity -- God's holiness and righteousness -- God's jealousy and perfection -- God's truthfulness and goodness (love) -- God's mercy and wrath -- a response to God's attributes.

Alternative views on creation -- the origin of material creation -- the creation of spiritual creatures (angels) -- the sustenance of all creation -- God's transcendence over and immanence in creation -- God's sovereignty over creation -- God's providence in creation.

Appendices: -- Christology -- biblical references to creation -- various views on origins -- various views on the days of Genesis -- the age of the earth -- the scientific evidence for creation -- pneumatology."

"As Dr. Norman Geisler explains and defends the essentials that make Christian belief possible -- the preconditions -- he lays a thorough foundation for Christian faith that will instruct theologians, pastors, and students for years to come. Building on that foundation, Geisler's bibliology, including the inspiration and authority of the Bible, has been called "the most extensive defense of the consistent evangelical view of Holy Scripture available."

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Origin of the Church -- Nature of the Universal Church -- Nature of the Visible Church(es) -- Government of the Visible Church -- Ordinances of the Visible Church -- Ministry of the Visible Church (Spiritual Gifts) -- Relationship of the Church to the State -- Intermediate State and Resurrection -- Final State of the Saved (Heaven) -- Final State of the Lost (Hell) -- Alleged Temporary State of the Saved (Purgatory) -- Annihilationism -- Interpretation of Prophecy -- Kingdom of God -- Covenants of God -- Second Coming and the Millennium -- Tribulation and the Rapture -- Appendix 1 : Only the Apostles Spoke in Tongues at Pentecost -- Appendix 2 : Were Tongues a Real Language? -- Appendix 3: Has the Gift of Miracles Ceased? -- Appendix 4 : Ultradispensationalism -- Appendix 5 : Does the Resurrection Body Have the Same Particles As Before Death? -- Appendix 6 : Reincarnation -- Appendix 7 : General Councils of the Church and the Development of Roman Catholicism -- Appendix 8 : Role of the New Testament Apostles."

A condensation of the four-volume set.