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The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way is unavailable, but you can change that!

Michael Horton’s highly anticipated The Christian Faith represents his magnum opus and will be viewed as one of—if not—the most important systematic theologies since Louis Berkhof wrote his in 1932. A prolific, award-winning author and theologian, Professor Horton views this volume as “doctrine that can be preached, experienced, and lived, as well as understood, clarified, and articulated.” It is...

Any genuine field of knowledge (the older meaning of scientia or “science”) must have an object—in other words, a subject matter. Furthermore, that object must be knowable. Astronomy is a legitimate science because planets, stars, and other bodies in space actually exist and can be studied. Theology is “the study of God.” For reasons explored later in the chapter, the object shifted in the modern era (with notable exceptions) from
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