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A FOUNDATIONAL STUDY OF THEOLOGY!
Originally published in 8 volumes and over 2,800 pages in print, this is a foundational and comprehensive study of the Person and Work of God as revealed in Scripture. Warm, practical, and often devotional, it is entirely Christ-centered.
It is used by many leaders, pastors, and teachers as their trusted guide to a comprehensive study of God. This is the first dispensational, premillenial systematic theology ever published. A foundational work for many evangelicals, it is highly regarded and influential for students and leaders today. It bridges the classic reformed standards of the past (Hodge and Warfield) with groundbreaking insights and influences of the fundamentalist movement and C. I. Scofield.
Chafer describes systematic theology as "the collecting, systematically arranging, comparing, exhibiting and defending of all facts concerning God and His works from any and every source." This resource is an unabridged systematic theology that covers: bibliology (the Scriptures), theology proper (Person and work of God), angelology (angels unfallen and fallen), anthropology (mankind), soteriology (salvation), ecclesiology (the church), eschatology (things to come), christology (Person and work of Christ), pneumatology (Persona and work of the Holy Spirit). A special bonus is Chafer’s “Doctrinal Summarization” which is a dictionary of over 180 key terms, from “Abiding” to “Zion,” providing helpful summaries of their meaning and use throughout Scripture.
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Lewis Sperry Chafer was the founding president of Dallas Theological Seminary and long-time editor of Bibliotheca Sacra.
"The appearance of...Systematic Theology...is without question an epoch in the history of Christian doctrine. Never before has a work similar in content, purpose, and scope been produced. Its appearance in a day when liberal interpretation and unbelief have riddled the Biblical basis for theological study is in itself highly significant...we have here something entirely different than any previously written theology. For the first time the whole scope of theology is considered from the standpoint of premillennial interpretation. The work is remarkably Biblical. The appeal is constantly to Biblical authority rather than to philosophy, tradition, or creed. There has been proper appreciation of the doctrinal heritage of the Church Fathers and the Protestant Reformers. The work is in no sense iconoclastic. In the treatment of bibliology and theology proper as well as in later discussions, President Chafer quotes extensively with approbation from the best theological statements extant. In general a broad and moderate Calvinism is followed in the theology. The work as a whole definitely belongs within the limits of Reformed theology with certain important additions and qualifications. It is however quite distinct from various restatements of Reformed theology. It is a fresh and creative work, a pioneer in a new field, a gathering together in theological system of an interpretation of Biblical doctrines never before treated in this way. It is essentially an exposition and systematization of premillennial and dispensational theology rather than an apology for it. The doctrines which it contains have been preached in various forms by most of the great premillennial Bible teachers of the last fifty years. For the first time these doctrines have been reduced to a written system of theology, related to theological problems, and expanded into all the fields in which revelation has provided teaching. It provides for all who hold the premillennial interpretation of the Scriptures a systematic statement of the content, implications, and relations of their doctrines. For those who would be instructed in what are the proper inclusions of premillennialism it provides an ordered statement of the doctrine as a whole such as has never been provided in one work before. Regardless what theological position may be assumed by the reader, he will find this work definitive in its field." -- Dr. J. F. Waalvord, Bible.org
"Though scholarly in the true sense of the word, this work can also be read and understood by those not formally trained in theology." — Charles C. Ryrie
“...Chafer’s magnum opus...the definitive statement of dispensational theology.” — Walter Elwell
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