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LECTURES IN SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY

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A complete course in Reformed theology including a syllibus of required readings. Though written in the 19th century, the material was ahead of its time and not many contemporary treatments equal it in breadth or salience. Robert Dabney demonstrates great skill in exegesis, antebellum analysis, and historical insight. Dabney vividly demonstrates the role of Thomas Reid's thought in American theology and makes genuine, not merely rhetorical, use of it. His lectures carry the discussion forward on many the period's pressing questions and anticipates much of the shape of current analytic philosophy of religion. I recommend using the text as a supplement to Charles Hodge's Systematic Theology, since Dabney generally agrees with Hodge unless he specificly says otherwise (which is always significant). R.L. Dabney was a pastor and a professor of Church History at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia and served under Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson in the Civil War.