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Essential Christian Doctrine: A Handbook on Biblical Truth is unavailable, but you can change that!

Doctrine not only equips Christians with more knowledge about God, it also shapes their affections toward him and directs their actions for him. This concise handbook of Christian doctrine was developed to teach the truths of Scripture and help Christians apply those truths. Systematizing the robust theology that has served as the foundation for John MacArthur’s well-known preaching ministry for...

in which all His perfections are transcendently displayed, should have no plan or system, is altogether absurd.4 Systematic theology answers the question, what does the completed canon of Scripture teach about any one theme or topic? For example, what does the Bible teach from Genesis to Revelation about the deity of Jesus Christ? A basic definition of systematic theology, then, would be “the ordered exposition of Christian doctrines.”5 A systematic theology must display (1) hermeneutical integrity,
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