Systematic Theology - (3-Volume Set) [Hardcover]

Charles Hodge (Author)

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ISBN-10: 1565634594 | ISBN-13: 978-1565634596 | Publication Date: June 1999

The magnum opus of one of America's most prominent theologians offers an in-depth exploration of theology, anthropology, soteriology, and eschatology. This monumental work, now a standard for theological students, was written while Hodge served as a professor at Princeton, where he permanently influenced American Christianity as a teacher, preacher, and exegete. Includes a comprehensive index.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 2400 pages
• Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers (June 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565634594
• ISBN-13: 978-1565634596
• Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 8.8 x 7.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #413,819 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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35 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Abridged? Decimated!, March 1, 2003

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Stephen Hancock "Scholar born 300 years late." (Snellville, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Systematic Theology (Paperback)

Anyone wanting to read Hodge, should go with the three volume edition. Yes, there is far too much interaction with the pseudo-science of the day, but this "abridgement" lays waste to whole areas of interest to anyone who would want to read Hodge in the first place. It's interesting that one of the areas where the cutting is most obvious is in the area where the "editor" disagrees with Hodge the most, that is the locus of "eschatology". The editor is a Premillennialist and Hodge, like all Princetonians was a clear Postmillennialist. If you want to read Hodge without the excess verbiage, buy A.A Hodge's "Outlines of Theology", which is based on the very same lectures that Charles Hodge published as his Systematics. It's simpler, yet doesn't alter the truth the way this chopped-up mess does. This abridgement is a master maligned.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Note Latin is deleted not translated, July 9, 2003

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Tomtul2 (Culver City, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Systematic Theology (Three Volume Set ) (Hardcover)

Note that the long latin quotations in the original book have simply been deleted, not translated. Still worthwhile even if many sections go over the head of the average reader--many other sections are accessible and made me exclaim "he is the Reformed C. S. Lewis".

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reformed Theology, July 6, 1998

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This review is from: Systematic Theology (Paperback)

The original Hodge's theology was three large volumes, with frequent pages cited in Latin, German, Greek, and occaisional other languages. But, it was the best of American Reformed theology from the turn of the century. Edward Gross has condensed and revised this work, and made it readable (all in English). I recommend this book for any Christian interested in the deeper side of the faith, and advise also reading Basic Theology by Charles Ryrie as a balancing view.