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Hodge: Systematic Theology, Vol. 2

Charles Hodge · 1871–1873

Princeton's Reformed systematic theology: anthropology and soteriology.

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From the opening: Part II. — Anthropology

Anthropology

Systematic Theology

Part II. — Anthropology

Having considered the doctrines which concern the nature of God and his relation to the world, we come now to those which concern man; his origin, nature, primitive state, probation, and apostasy; which last subject includes the question as to the nature of sin; and the effects of Adam's first sin upon himself and upon his posterity. These subjects constitute the department of Anthropology.

Chapter I

Origin of Man

§ 1. Scriptural Doctrine.

The Scriptural account of the origin of man is contained in Genesis i. 26, 27, "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them." And Gen. ii. 7, "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."

Two things are included in this account; first that man's body was formed by the immediate intervention of God. It did not grow; nor was it produced by any process of development. Secondly, the soul was derived from God. He breathed into man "the breath of life," that is, that life which constituted him a man, a living creature bearing the image of God.

Many have inferred from this language that the soul is an emanation from the divine essence; particula spiritus divini in corpore inclusa. This idea was strenuously resisted by the Christian fathers, and rejected by the Church, as inconsistent with the nature of God. It assumes that the divine essence is capable of division; that his essence can be communicated without his attributes, and that it can be degraded as the souls of fallen men are degraded. (See Delitzsch's "Biblical Psychology" in T. and T. Clark's "Foreign Library," and Auberlen in Herzog's "Encyclopädie," article "Geist der Menschen.")

§ 2. Anti-Scriptural Theories.

Heathen Doctrine of Spontaneous Generation.

The Scriptural doctrine is opposed to the doctrine held by many of the ancients, that man is a spontaneous production of the earth. Many of them claimed to be gegeneis, autochthenes, terrigena. The earth was assumed to be pregnant with the germs of all living organisms, which were quickened into life under favourable circumstances; or it was regarded…

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Contents (62 sections)

  1. Opening
  2. Title page
  3. Contents of the Second Volume
  4. Part II. — Anthropology
  5. Part II. — Anthropology (continued)
  6. Part II. — Anthropology (continued)
  7. Chapter II
  8. Chapter II (continued)
  9. Chapter III
  10. Chapter IV
  11. Chapter V
  12. Chapter V (continued)
  13. Chapter VI
  14. Chapter VII
  15. Chapter VIII
  16. Chapter VIII (continued)
  17. Chapter VIII (continued)
  18. Chapter VIII (continued)
  19. Chapter VIII (continued)
  20. Chapter VIII (continued)
  21. Chapter VIII (continued)
  22. Chapter VIII (continued)
  23. Chapter VIII (continued)
  24. Chapter VIII (continued)
  25. Chapter VIII (continued)
  26. Chapter VIII (continued)
  27. Part III. — Soteriology
  28. The Plan of Salvation
  29. The Plan of Salvation (continued)
  30. The Plan of Salvation (continued)
  31. Chapter II
  32. Chapter II (continued)
  33. The Second Dispensation
  34. The Third Dispensation
  35. Person of Christ
  36. Person of Christ (continued)
  37. Person of Christ (continued)
  38. Person of Christ (continued)
  39. Person of Christ (continued)
  40. Chapter IV
  41. Chapters V–VI
  42. Chapter V (continued)
  43. Satisfaction of Christ
  44. Satisfaction of Christ (continued)
  45. Satisfaction of Christ (continued)
  46. Satisfaction of Christ (continued)
  47. Satisfaction of Christ (continued)
  48. For Whom DID Christ Die?
  49. For Whom DID Christ Die? (continued)
  50. Chapter IX
  51. Chapter IX (continued)
  52. Chapter X
  53. Chapter XI
  54. Chapter XII
  55. Chapter XIII
  56. Chapter XIV
  57. Chapter XIV (continued)
  58. Chapter XIV (continued)
  59. Chapter XIV (continued)
  60. Chapter XIV (continued)
  61. Chapter XIV (continued)
  62. Chapter XIV (continued)

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