R.C. Sproul

EVERYONE’S A THEOLOGIAN

An Introduction to Systematic Theology

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Everyone’s a Theologian: An Introduction to Systematic Theology

© 2014 by R.C. Sproul

Published by Reformation Trust Publishing

A division of Ligonier Ministries

421 Ligonier Court, Sanford, FL 32771

March 2014

First edition

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All Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sproul, R. C. (Robert Charles), 1939–

Everyone’s a theologian: an introduction to systematic theology / R.C. Sproul.

pages cm

ISBN-13: 978-1-56769-365-2 (hardcover)

ISBN-10: 1-56769-365-2 (hardcover)

1. Theology, Doctrinal--Popular works. I. Title.

BT77.S7183 2014

230--dc23

2013037126

To my family,

who has been so loving and supportive

through the years of my ministry

CONTENTS

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1 What Is Theology

Chapter 2 The Scope and Purpose of Theology

Chapter 3 General Revelation and Natural Theology

Chapter 4 Special Revelation

Chapter 5 The Inspiration and Authority of Scripture

Chapter 6 Infallibility and Inerrancy

Chapter 7 Canonicity

Chapter 8 Scripture and Authority

PART TWO: THEOLOGY PROPER

Chapter 9 Knowledge of God

Chapter 10 One in Essence

Chapter 11 Three in Person

Chapter 12 Incommunicable Attributes

Chapter 13 Communicable Attributes

Chapter 14 The Will of God

Chapter 15 Providence

PART THREE: ANTHROPOLOGY AND CREATION

Chapter 16 Creatio Ex Nihilo

Chapter 17 Angels and Demons

Chapter 18 The Creation of Man

Chapter 19 The Nature of Sin

Chapter 20 Original Sin

Chapter 21 Transmission of Sin

Chapter 22 The Covenants

PART FOUR: CHRISTOLOGY

Chapter 23 The Christ of the Bible

Chapter 24 One Person, Two Natures

Chapter 25 The Names of Christ

Chapter 26 The States of Christ

Chapter 27 The Offices of Christ

Chapter 28 Why Did Christ Die?

Chapter 29 Substitutionary Atonement

Chapter 30 The Extent of the Atonement

PART FIVE: PNEUMATOLOGY

Chapter 31 The Holy Spirit in the Old Testament

Chapter 32 The Holy Spirit in the New Testament

Chapter 33 The Paraclete

Chapter 34 The Baptism of the Holy Spirit

Chapter 35 The Gifts of the Spirit

Chapter 36 The Fruit of the Spirit

Chapter 37 Are Miracles for Today?

PART SIX: SOTERIOLOGY

Chapter 38 Common Grace

Chapter 39 Election and Reprobation

Chapter 40 Effectual Calling

Chapter 41 Justification by Faith Alone

Chapter 42 Saving Faith

Chapter 43 Adoption and Union with Christ

Chapter 44 Sanctification...

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About Everyone’s a Theologian: An Introduction to Systematic Theology

Many people react negatively to the word theology, believing that is involves dry, fruitless arguments about minute points of doctrine. They prefer to focus on the basic truths of Scripture and may even declare, “No creed but Christ.”

But as R. C. Sproul argues, everyone is a theologian. Any time we think about a teaching of the Bible and strive to understand it, we are engaging in theology. Therefore, it is important that we put the Bible’s varied teachings together in a systematic fashion using proper, time-tested methods of interpretation so as to arrive at a theology that is founded on truth.

That is precisely what Sproul does in Everyone’s a Theologian. Sproul, demonstrating his trademark ability to make complex subjects easily understood, surveys the basic truths of the Christian faith, reminding us once more of what God is like and of what he has done for his people in this world and the next.

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