With
characteristic clarity, Louis Berkhof examines the
History of Christian Doctrines.
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The Apostolic Fathers



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Their Writings

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Formal Characteristics

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Material Contents







The Apologists



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The Task of the Apologists

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Their Construction of the Truth

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Their Significance







The Anti-Gnostic Fathers



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Their Doctrine of God

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Their Doctrine of Christ

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Their Doctrine of Salvation and the Church







The Alexandrian Fathers



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Their Doctrine of God

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Their Doctrine of Christ

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Their Doctrine of Salvation and the Church







The Trinitarian
Controversy



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The Background

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The Nature of the Controversy

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The Council of Nicea







Christological Controversies



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The Background

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The Council of Chalcedon

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The Monothelitic Controversy

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John of Damascus

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During the Reformation

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In the 19th Century







The Doctrines of Sin and
Grace



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The Anthropology of the Patristic Period

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Pelagius and Augustine

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Gottschalk

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Anselm

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The Arminians

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Synod of Dort

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Wesleyan Arminianism

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New England Theology







The Atonement



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In the Greek and Latin Fathers

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Anselm, Abelard, Aquinas

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The Socinian Conception

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The Arminian View

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The Marrow Controversy







The Application of
Redemption



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Patristic Soteriology

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Scholastic Soteriology

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Reformation and Post-Reformation Soteriology







Ecclesiology



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In the Patristic Period

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Middle Ages

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During and After the Reformation

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Baptism

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The Lord's Supper







Eschatology



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The Intermediate State

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Second Advent and Millennial Hope

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The Resurrection

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The Last Judgment
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Louis
Berkhof served as a professor of theology and
president of Calvin Theological Seminary.
He
had an unusual capacity to assimilate a large body of
material, sort out its essential content, and
reproduce it in condensed form.
Possessing
remarkable personal and intellectual gifts, Professor
Berkhof was a voracious reader and biblical scholar.

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Bibliography |
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Systematic Theology

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Manual of Christian Doctrine

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Principles of Biblical Interpretation

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New Testament Introduction

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The Assurance of Faith
The
theological titles above serve as a partial list of books authored by
Professor Louis Berkhof.


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