Systematic Theology (In Two Volumes)
Rousas John Rushdoony
Theology belongs in the pulpit, the school, the workplace, the family and everywhere. Society as a whole is weakened when theology is neglected. Without a systematic application of theology, too often people approach the Bible with a smorgasbord mentality, picking and choosing that which pleases them. This two-volume set addresses this subject in order to assist in the application of the Word of God to every area of life and thought.
Systematic Theology (2 Volumes) – Index
Volume I
I. Infallibility
1. Infallibility: An Inescapable Concept
2. Infallibility and Immanence
8. The Infallible Act and Word
15. Moloch Man and the Word of God
16. Infallibility and the World of Faith
II. The Necessity For Systematic Theology
1. The Necessity for Systematic Theology
2. Causality and Systematics
3. The Systematics of Common Life
4. The Coherency of Scripture
5. The Limits of Systematic Theology
6. Abstract Theology
7. Systematics and Possibility
8. Systematics and Proof
9. Practical Systematics
10. Faith
11. Systematic Anthropology
12. Inevitable Systematics
13. Neoplatonic Systematics
14. The Goal of Systematics
15. Systematics and Lordship
16. The Search for a Master Principle
17. Abstractionism
18. Seminary Systematics
19. Anti-Abstractionism
III. Creation and Providence
1. Creation and Holiness
2. The Goodness of Creation
3. Creation and Providence
4. The Joy of Creation in Providence
5. Neoplatonism and Providence
6. Creation as Revelation
7. Calvin on Providence
8. Naturalistic Providence
9. Providence and Historiography
10. The Unity of Our Faith
11. Providence and Prayer
12. Creationism and Prayer
13. Providence, Faith, and Piety
14. Providence and the Sabbath
15. Creation, Providence, and Responsibility
16. Creation, Providence, and Eschatology
17. Humanistic Providence
IV. The Doctrine of God
1. The Doctrine of God
2. The Trinity and Subordination
3. God, Logic, and Reality
4. The Incomprehensibility of God
5. God’s Eternalness
6.The Aseity of God
7. Idolatry
8. God the Father
9. God the Son
10. God the Spirit
11. Sovereignty, Government, and Providence
12. God and Creation
13. Predestination
14. “Why Hast Thou Made Me Thus?”
V. The Doctrine of Christ
1. “The Seed of the Woman”
2. The Promise of Abraham
3. Shiloh
4. Dominion
5. The Prophet
6. The Lion and His Cubs
7. The Canopy
8. The Wonderful Counsellor
9. Rights
10. Our New Adam, Jesus Christ
11. Jesus Christ as Lord
12. The Cosmic Christ
13. The Wisdom of God
14. The Word
15. The Divine Exegesis
16. “The Alpha and the Omega“
17. Christ the Savior
18. The Ruler
19. The Great High Priest
20. The great Prophet
21. The King
22. King Adam II
VI. The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
1. The Giver of Life
2. The Spirit and the Kingdom
3. The Spirit of Jubilee
4. The Spirit and Bezaleel
5. Saul and the Spirit
6. The Spirit and Epistemology
7. The Spirit and the Incarnation
8. The Coming of the Spirit
9. The Presence of the Spirit
10. Power
11. The Unchanging Spirit
12. The Sin Against the Spirit
13. “The Communion of the Holy Ghost“
14. The Spirit and Authority
15. The Spirit of Adoption
16. The Spirit and the Resurrection
17. “Try the Spirits“
18. The Weak and the Strong
19. The Spirit, the Law, and Judgment
20. “Grieve Not the Holy Spirit of God”
21. “Quench Not the Spirit”
22. “I Will Not Leave You Orphans”
23. The Fruits of the Spirit
VII. The Covenant
1. The Covenant
2. Is There a Covenant of Works?
3. The Covenant and Land
4. Covenant Faithfulness
5. The Blood of the Covenant
6. Covenant Curses and Blessings
7. The Kinsman-Redeemer
8. The Cities of Refuge
9. Covenant Celebrations
10. Oath and Covenant
11. The Civil Government
12. Blood and Life
13. The Covenant and Seed
14. The Covenant and Election
15. The Marriage Covenant
16. The Plague of Blood
17. The Covenant and the Name
18. Breaking the Covenant
19. The Covenant and the Body
20. The Covenant and the Mediator
21. Messiahship, Covenant, and Sovereignty
22. Covenant Salvation
VIII. The Theological Nature of Sin
1. The Religious Nature of Sin
2. The Origin of Sin
3. Total Depravity
4. Sin as Deprivation
5. Sin and Society
6. Sin as Personal Fulfillment
7. Sin and Matter
8. Sin and False Perfectionism
9. Sin as a Political Asset
10. Fables
11. The View of Sins as Virtues
12. Sin and Sins
13. Sin and Fantasy
14. Sin and Passover
15. Sin as Privilege and Right
16. The Kingdom of Sin, or the Kingdom of Man
17. Sin and Law (1)
18. Sin and Law (2)
19. Sin and Desecration
20. The Eschatology of Sin
21. Sin and Righteousness
22. The Lie
IX. The Order Salutis
1. The Order Salutis
2. Salvation
3. Humanistic Salvation
4. Salvation: Anthropology or Theology?
5. Cosmic Salvation
6. Polytheistic Salvation
7. The Evangel or Gospel
8. Election
9. Predestination
10. Regeneration
11. Effectual Calling
12. Conversion: Faith and Repentance
13. Justification
14. Sanctification
15. Preservation
16. Perseverance
17. Glorification (1)
18. Glorification (2)
19. Glorification (3)
20. Glorification (4)
21. “Feed My Sheep”
X. Atonement
1. Expiation and Atonement
2. Our Atonement by Jesus Christ
3. Atonement and Responsibility
4. Vicarious Sacrifice
5. Imputation
6. Blood
7. Sacrifice
8. Legal Satisfaction
9. Imputation and Sacrifice
10. The Doctrine of Ransom
11. Forgiveness
12. Sado-Masochism
13. The Unatoned
14. The Atoned
XI. Justification
1. Justification
2. The Sociology of Justification
3. Justification By Faith
4. False Justification
5. Repression
6. Justification by Law
7. Justification by Victimization
8. Toleration and Intolerance
9. “The Just Shall Live By Faith”
10. Justification and the Will to Fiction
11. Justification by Indictment
12. The Person of God
13. Justification and History
14. Justification and Eternity
15. Pragmatic Justification
16. Justification by Logic
17. Justification and the Doctrine of God
18. Justification and the Freedom of Man in Christ
Volume 2
XII. Doctrine of the Church
1. Introduction
2. Faith and the Church
3. Circumcision
4. Government
5. Training for Governing
6. The Passover
7. The Sabbath
8. The Assembly or Congregation
9. The Holy Assembly
10. The House of God
11. Ministers
12. Presbyters
13. Ritual
14. The Laying of Hands
15. The Joyful and Healing Church
16. Authority
17. Fringes and Tassels
18. Baptism
19. Communion
20. The Ark and the Presence
21. Laymen and the Church
22. Women and the Church
23. The Foundation Rock
24. Loosing and Binding
25. One Flock, One Shepherd
26. Apostolic Succession
27. Unity
28. The Church of the Resurrection
29. The Church as Witness
30. The Church as Property and Function
XIII. Eschatology
1. The Meaning of Eschatology
2. The Eschaton and Man
3. Law as Eschatology
4. Eschatology and the Covenant
5. Eschatology of everyday Life
6. Eschatology in “Nature”
7. The Restoration of the Earth
8. The Eschatology of Covenant Man
9. Captivity and Restoration
10. The Eschatology of Bones
11. The Restoration of God’s Order
12. Eschatology and Prayer
13. Eschatology and Causality
14. The Necessary Connection
15. Motivation
16. The Real Presence and Eschatology
17. The Body
18. The Body and Christ
19. The Body of Humiliation
20. “A Body Hast Thou Prepared For Me”
21. The Resurrection Body
22. Judgment as Process and Event
23. Judgment as Crisis
24. The Covenant Consummation: The Last Judgment
25. The Covenant Consummation: Paradise
26. The Eschatology of Hell
27. The Second Coming of Jesus Christ
28. The New Creation
29.Typology and Eschatology
30. Eschatology and Man’s Kingly Office
31. Eschatology and Ma’s Priestly Office
32. Eschatology and Man’s Prophetic Office
XIV. The Doctrine of Man
1. “A Little Lower Than Judges”
2. “What is Man?”
3. Christ’s Resurrection and the Doctrine of Man
4. The Predetermined Life of Man
5. Male and Female
6. The Blessing of Man
7. God’s Oath-Man
8. Citizens of Life or Death
9. Adam and Christ
10. Man in Adam and Christ
11. “After the Image”
12. Man’s “Rights”
13. Non-Private Man
14. Non-Public Man
15. Guilt and Freedom
16. Guilt and the Slave Society
17. Man’s System
18. The Culmination of Man’s System
19. Life and Death
XV. Theology of the Land
1. Atonement for the Land
2. The Dominion Mandate
3. The Curse and the Covenant
4. God and the Land
5. The Law of Diverse Kinds
6. The Redemption of the Land
7. The Land and the Poor
8. Communion and Community
9. The Sabbath of the Land and Man
10. Debt and Future
11. The Covenant and Land
12. Sacred Land
13. The Holy Spirit and the Tithe
14. Freedom and the Land
15. Salvation and the Land
16. The Land and Holiness
17. The Land Defiled
18. Man Defiled
19. Disinheritance
20. Judgment
XVI. Theology of Work
1. Vocation and Work
2. Work and the Curse
3. Government as a Monopoly, or, The Politics of Death
4. Work and Confusion
5. Bramble Men
6. The Babel State
7. The Work of Christ
8. Work Versus Theft
9. Work and Dominion
10. Work and Just Measures
11. The Eschatology of Work
12. Holy Offices
13. Hierarchical Work
14. The Work Ethic
15. Work, Rest, and Leisure
16. The Clean Society
17. Work and Rest
18. The Prophetic Nature of Work
19. Faith and Work
XVII. Time
1. The Moral Question
2. Eternity and Time
3. Time and History
4. Time, History, and Meaning
5. The Infallibility of Time
6. Time and Apostolic Succession
7. Dreams and the Determination of Time
8. The Philosophy of Time and the Sabbath
9. Time and the Idea
10. Calendar Time
11. Time, Sin, and Death
12. Biblical Time and History
13. The Logic of Time
14. The Hatred of Time
15. Theological
16. Future Time
XVIII. Authority
1. Author and Authority
2. Man’s Relationship to Authority
3. “The Power of His Resurrection“
4. “The Spirit of Adoption”
5. Living Under Authority
6. Authority and Power
7. Undermining Authority
8. Authority and False Responsibility
9. Authority and Ministry
10. “By What Authority?”
11. The Purpose of Authority
12. The Source of Authority
13. Authority, Primary and Secondary
14. The Cherubim
15. The Seraphim
16. Satanic Authority
17. Authority, Justice, and Men
18. The Power to Kill
19. Authority and Life
XIX. Prayer
1. Prayer
2. Matthew 6:8 and Prayer
3. John Calvin and Prayer
4. The Cure for Blindness
5. “Hallowed Be Thy Name:” Prayer and the Future
6. “Give Us This Day:” Prayer and the Present
7. Forgiveness and Prayer
8. “Lead Us Not into Temptation:” Reality and Prayer
9. The Doxology
10. Asking and Receiving
11. Prayer and Gratitude
Rev. R.J. Rushdoony (1916–2001), was a leading theologian, church/state expert, and author of numerous works on the application of Biblical law to society. He started the Chalcedon Foundation in 1965. His Institutes of Biblical Law (1973) began the contemporary theonomy movement which posits the validity of Biblical law as God’s standard of obedience for all. He therefore saw God’s law as the basis of the modern Christian response to the cultural decline, one he attributed to the church’s false view of God’s law being opposed to His grace. This broad Christian response he described as “Christian Reconstruction.” He is credited with igniting the modern Christian school and homeschooling movements in the mid to late 20th century. He also traveled extensively lecturing and serving as an expert witness in numerous court cases regarding religious liberty. Many ministry and educational efforts that continue today, took their philosophical and Biblical roots from his lectures and books.
Learn more about R.J. Rushdoony by visiting: https://chalcedon.edu/founder