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A great companion volume to Wayne Grudem's Systematic Theology book. Gives a solid grounding to how the current thinking on theology has developed in the Protestant world.
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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Fantastic Companion to Wayne Grudem's Systematic Theology
18 April 2011
Format:Hardcover
Gregg R. Allison has made a very useful and practical contribution to the study of historical theology - especially for those familiar with Wayne Grudem's "Systematic Theology." Gregg writes clearly and cogently for those of us who desire to go deeper into the historical foundations, development, and significance of each major doctrine of the Bible.
Allison gives us eight solid reasons for studying Historical Theology:
1) "helping [those who study it to] distinguish orthodoxy from heresy."
2) "it provides sound biblical interpretations and theological formulations."
3) "it presents stellar examples of faith, love, courage, hope, obedience, and mercy."
4) "to protect against the individualism that is rampant today among Christians."
5) "it not only helps the church understand the historical development of its beliefs, but enables it to express those beliefs in contemporary form."
6) "it encourages the church to focus on the essentials, that is, to major on those areas that have been emphasized repeatedly throughout the history of the church."
7) "it gives the church hope by providing assurance that Jesus is fulfilling his promise to his people."
8) "finally, as beneficiaries of the heritage of doctrinal development sovereignly overseen by Jesus Christ, the church of today is privileged to enjoy a sense of belonging to the church of the past."
This book is simply a marvelous plethora of useful information on the development of theology gathered in one place, synthesized masterfully by Allison for those who want to know how theology has come to us by the greatest theological minds in history. The author follows the same outline of Wayne Grudem's "Systematic Theology," (also available from Zondervan), and thus it makes this resource an excellent companion of Grudem's outstanding work. I highly recommend both of these resources to be used together for anyone who desires to know what we believe and how the greatest God-centered theologians of history have developed the sound theology needed to transform lives and culture today in the 21st century.
Allison gives us eight solid reasons for studying Historical Theology:
1) "helping [those who study it to] distinguish orthodoxy from heresy."
2) "it provides sound biblical interpretations and theological formulations."
3) "it presents stellar examples of faith, love, courage, hope, obedience, and mercy."
4) "to protect against the individualism that is rampant today among Christians."
5) "it not only helps the church understand the historical development of its beliefs, but enables it to express those beliefs in contemporary form."
6) "it encourages the church to focus on the essentials, that is, to major on those areas that have been emphasized repeatedly throughout the history of the church."
7) "it gives the church hope by providing assurance that Jesus is fulfilling his promise to his people."
8) "finally, as beneficiaries of the heritage of doctrinal development sovereignly overseen by Jesus Christ, the church of today is privileged to enjoy a sense of belonging to the church of the past."
This book is simply a marvelous plethora of useful information on the development of theology gathered in one place, synthesized masterfully by Allison for those who want to know how theology has come to us by the greatest theological minds in history. The author follows the same outline of Wayne Grudem's "Systematic Theology," (also available from Zondervan), and thus it makes this resource an excellent companion of Grudem's outstanding work. I highly recommend both of these resources to be used together for anyone who desires to know what we believe and how the greatest God-centered theologians of history have developed the sound theology needed to transform lives and culture today in the 21st century.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Dr. Greg Allison's Historical Theology
19 May 2011
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Dr. Allison has made a great contribution to the Evangelical community. I have been studying the theological history of Creation. It has been difficult to find resources. My main sources have been Answers in Genesis' Dr. Terry Mortenson and Dr. Jason Lisle. (Dr Mortenson's work, that I've seen, has been mostly with the history of Evolution. Astrophysicist Lisle points out that evolution is irrational as a world view. Piecemeal I have collected serveral books and DVD's that have been helpful.) Greg Allison, though, has included the material I have found through AIG and has gone further back in history; studying the creation theology of Anselm, Augustine, Calvin, and others. If I could have only one resource on creation history I would want this book.
While I've talked only of the chapter on Creation, Allison's book is a wide and deep history of systematic theology. In the early 1980's I attended Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and took Elementary Greek from a 33 year old Dr. Grudem. Greg Allison was the top student in that class. I had written Greg Allison's phone number in my Elementary Greek Grammer so I could call him for help. Thanks for helping Greg, then and now.
While I've talked only of the chapter on Creation, Allison's book is a wide and deep history of systematic theology. In the early 1980's I attended Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and took Elementary Greek from a 33 year old Dr. Grudem. Greg Allison was the top student in that class. I had written Greg Allison's phone number in my Elementary Greek Grammer so I could call him for help. Thanks for helping Greg, then and now.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
A most needed and accessible work!
4 May 2011
Format:Hardcover
I will preface my review by saying that I agree with David P. Craig's review above. Dr. Allison has written an accessible and weighty work that details the theological advancement of major doctrines of the Christian church through much of their historical development. The primary goal of the the volume is to provide an overview that dovetails with Wayne Grudem's Systematic Theology and Allison includes a table that details how his work dovetails with Grudem's. More than an addition to Grudem, however, the level of scholarship including the documentation from original source material, presents the reader with a wealth of critical source material references to back up the conclusions made within the work. A student can begin with Allison's book and conclude with a detailed study of original source documents that will shed light on our faith as once delivered to the saints and handed down through the faith and work of dedicated disciples of Jesus Christ to a generation not yet born.
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