Systematic Theology: Biblical, Historical, and Evangelical, Volume 2

by James Leo Garrett Jr.

Publisher:

Wipf and Stock

, 2014

Overview

This collection couples updated editions of longtime Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary professor James Leo Garrett Jr.’s two-volume Systematic Theology, a comprehensive exposition of Christian doctrines. Drawing upon his more than 40 years of experience teaching theology, Garrett offers a clear and thorough examination of Christian belief. He covers individual topics in-depth, as well as how they relate to each other in a systematic fashion. Garrett, whose career-long project has been his Baptist Theology: A Four-Century Study, engages a variety of Baptist theologians as well as others from across the theological spectrum.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Is it possible that Augustine and later Calvin,¹⁴⁶ with the help of many others, contributed to a hyper-individualization of this doctrine that was hardly warranted by Romans 9–11, Eph. 1:3–14, and 1 Pet. 2:9–10? Is it not true that the major emphasis in both testaments falls upon an elect people—Israel (Old Testament) and disciples or church (New Testament)?¹⁴⁷ Ought, then, the doctrine of election now be given a more corporate or collective interpretation than has characterized most of its past formulations?¹⁴⁸ Is election, therefore, properly to be seen as the ‘bridge’ doctrine between the Christian life and the church?” (Page 494)

“In none of the numerous Baptist confessions of faith, framed from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries and reproduced in W. L. Lumpkin’s Baptist Confessions of Faith, is the teaching of Dispensationalism included. The same may be said of certain other Christian denominations.” (Page 835)

“We add to this review of answers the conclusion that there seem to be no compelling reasons for holding that God has ordained, as distinct from permitting, the nonelection of the nonelect. Hence election does not stand or fall with reprobation as its twin doctrine.” (Page 486)

“Evidences for the Last Supper as a Passover meal include the following. The Synoptic Gospels record the Supper as occurring on Thursday evening, i.e., 15th Nisan.” (Page 660)

“Some insist that the bread must be unleavened, whereas others do not” (Page 674)

Product Details

• Title: Systematic Theology: Biblical, Historical, and Evangelical, Volume 2
• Author: James Leo Garrett Jr.
• Edition: Second Edition
• Series: Systematic Theology: Biblical, Historical, and Evangelical
• Volume: 2
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Print Publication Date: 2014
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Theology, doctrinal
• ISBNs: 9781498206600, 9781625648525, 1498206603, 1625648529
• Resource ID: LLS:SYSTHGARRETT024TH
• Resource Type: Systematic Theology
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:16:24Z

About James Leo Garrett Jr.

James Leo Garrett Jr. is distinguished professor of theology emeritus at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. He earned his ThM from Princeton Theological Seminary (1949), ThD from Southwestern Baptist Seminary (1954), and PhD from Harvard University (1966). He has also studied at the Catholic University of America, the University of Oxford, St. John’s University, and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He has also taught at Baylor University and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, as well as serving as a visiting professor at the Hong Kong Baptist Theological Seminary. He has also written Baptist Theology: A Four-Century Study, and contributed to Perspectives on Church Government: Five Views on Church Polity. He also edited The Concept of the Believers’ Church: Addresses from the 1967 Louisville Conference.