Popular Lectures on Theological Themes
Overview
This volume began as a series of lectures delivered in a women’s class at Princeton in the mid-1880s. After Hodge received repeated requests to deliver these lectures for a broader audience—and glowing reviews of their content in the Presbyterian and the Presbyterian Journal—he compiled them into this accessible monograph for wider distribution.
Popular Lectures on Theological Themes explains theology in accessible language for a wide—and not necessarily theologically-trained—audience. He aims to make theological topics sensible and straightforward: he writes at the outset, “All theology must be theocentric—must have God for its beginning and end.” Popular Lectures on Theological Themes also includes chapters on hotly-debated theological topics such as predestination, the sacraments, miracles, and the efficacy of prayer.
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Top Highlights
“In the theology of the heart all Christians are Calvinists; that is, all Christians ascribe all their salvation unto God. And this is the only form in which the doctrine of sovereign predestination should be insisted upon as of vital religious interest.” (Page 146)
“The faith he has cannot have been the precondition of God’s choice, but God’s choice must have been the precedent cause of his faith.” (Page 145)
“God’s eternal choice therefore cannot depend upon foreseen faith, but, on the contrary, faith must depend upon God’s eternal choice.” (Page 143)
“The expiatory work of Christ which is sufficient for, adapted to and freely offered to all men” (Pages 142–143)
“Pelagianism makes no room for original sin nor for the necessity of divine grace. It is diametrically opposed to the Scriptures, to the religious experience of all Christians, and it has been rejected as anti-Christian by the unanimous consent of the whole historic Church.” (Page 144)
- Title: Popular Lectures on Theological Themes (also published as Evangelical Theology: A Course of Popular Lectures)
- Author: Archibald Alexander Hodge
- Publisher: Presbyterian Board of Publication
- Publication Date: 1887
- Pages: 472