Systematic Theology

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1. rsyringMay 2018
   Agreed. A close second for me is Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem. It helped me understand the Bible and put the things I was reading into categories. It's a thick book, but very readable. If you want something a bit smaller, there are two thinner books that are a summary of the original:

   * Introduction to systematic theology (the discipline, not the book): https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/whats-systematic-...

   * Introductory book: Christian Beliefs

   * Mid-Level: Bible Doctrine

   * In Depth: Systematic Theology

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2. zvmazMar 2024
   > Among the most puzzling and paradoxical ideas in his Systematic Theology (1951) is his statement that ‘God does not exist’ and that ‘to argue that God exists is to deny him.’ Tillich goes on to state that the word ‘existence’ should never be used in conjunction with the word ‘God’.

   By reading this, I am tempted to imagine the intellectual atmosphere that prompted the logical positivists to insist on what constitutes meaningful statements to the point of being themselves incoherent [1].

   [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_positivism#Cognitive_m...

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3. ARandomerDudeJan 2021
   From the book description:

   > We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the belief that America is fundamentally and formally Christian originated in the 1930s.

   What a bizarre claim. Even the most cursory glance at historical documents would reveal this belief before the 1930s.

   One such example (among innumerable others) is from Princeton Seminary professor Charles Hodge's Systematic Theology, published in 1895.

   > Proof that this is a Christian and Protestant Nation

   > The proposition that the United States of America are a Christian and Protestant nation, is not so much the assertion of a principle as the statement of a fact. That fact is not simply that the great majority of the people are Christians and Protestants, but that the organic life, the institutions, laws, and official action of the government, whether that action be legislative, judicial, or executive, is, and of right should be, and in fact must be, in accordance with the principles of Protestant Christianity...

   https://books.google.com/books/about/Systematic_Theology.htm...

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4. throwitbackOct 2015
   > I would encourage you to read Jesus more closely

   I'm just trying to hit the high points for a silly internet discussion.

   > If you are sincerely interested in understanding things like the ceremonial law, civil law, moral law, Old Covenant, New Covenant, then I can point you to some excellent study guides and sermons.

   Been there. I found the Skeptic's Annotated Bible was more convincing than, say, Grudem's Systematic Theology, or any of the other reading from seminary.

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