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A Theology for the Church Hardcover – June 1, 2014

by Dr. Daniel L. Akin (Editor), Albert Mohler (Contributor), Dr. Paige Patterson (Contributor),

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The revised edition of A Theology for the Church retains its original structure, organized under these traditional theological categories: revelation, God, humanity, Christ, the Holy Spirit, salvation, the church, and last things.

Each chapter within these sections contains answers to the following four questions: What does the Bible say? What has the church believed? How does it all fit together? How does this doctrine impact the church today?

Contributions from leading Baptist thinkers R. Albert Mohler, Jr., Paige Patterson, and Mark Dever among others will also appeal to the broader evangelical community. Included in this revision are new chapters on theological method from a missional perspective (Bruce Ashford and Keith Whitfield) and theology of creation, providence, and Sabbath that engages current research in science and philosophy (Chad Owen Brand). Chapters on special revelation (David Dockery) and human nature (John Hammett) have also been updated.

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Daniel L. Akin is the president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. He holds a Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Texas at Arlington and has authored or edited many books and Bible commentaries including Ten Who Changed the World and the Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary volumes on Mark and 1, 2, 3 John.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ B&H Academic; Revised edition (June 1, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 770 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1433682133
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1433682131
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.2 x 1.75 x 10.25 inches

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Kevin & Ema Gates

Very thorough

Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2021

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I enjoyed this Systematic Theology for a couple of reasons:
Multiple authors: this allows you to see theology from various perspectives within the general shared scope of beliefs.
Chapter Outline: the major divisions of the chapters: intro, Bible, history, how does it all fit together, and application truly help one to understand doctrine more deeply.

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Ed

Nice update to the first edition

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2019

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I have the first edition of this book but wanted the revised one. Has some topics not covered in the first. Each topic written clearly and interestingly.

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Michael

Beautifully challenging

Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2016

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This book was very informative without causing a loose of interest. Beautifully written, all growing Christians will accept the challenge to grow that it places before them!!

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Rosalie Bocelli

A Great book!

Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2017

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Excellent book! I have enjoyed this book and helped me in a simple language to understand the Bible. Thanks Dr. Akin.

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Amazon Customer

Interested in theology - buy this book!!!

Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2016

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Love this book, a solid book, has scripture references for all its ascertains, flows very nice from one topic to next. Great reasource for biblical theology

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Solid intro to Baptist theology

Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2016

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I'm going to start off with the bad, and you are probably wonder why I gave this 4 stars.

This book has an extreme amount of irrelevant quotes. Like calling Job26:8-14 a "magnificent hymn" or saying that Hegel is the "greatest of the German Idealist". There are many that are like this. There are ones add no extra information and/or are not explained as having anything. It seems to me that the writer is either adding in quotes to make it more impressive or to lend credence to something the author agrees with. Hegel is one of the greatest Idealists there is no need to quote someone to make this point in quoting Livingston. Who most people would be less familiar with then Hegel.
This book doesn't do a good job of developing the concepts I think are important. Specifically strengths and weaknesses of the view it s presenting. It will offer views that are in opposition to the one it proposes is correct. It doesn't offer sufficient reasons why these are wrong. The author often just claims that a view is liberal or unbiblical or uses a wrong hermeneutical principle. I understand that the author can't refute every claim that opposes his view, but I do expect that when he brings one up that he should at least try to deal with it.
This book has a misleading title. It could have easily been titled "a theology for the Baptist Church" or "Baptist Systematic theology 101" or "Theo101 required reading" or "theology written to be accessible everyone that only theology students will ever read".
The last bad thing about this book is that it doesn't offer enough information on theology proper. This is probably the most important section of the book and it felt severely lacking.
Now for the good things which overshadow the bad by a lot. This book on the whole is very well written. It is in a format that is accessible by most laypeople while still offering nuggets for nerds like me. I didn't grow up Baptist so some of these ideas new and kind of interesting. I am one of the dirty liberals who reads Pannenberg, Barth, Moltman, Cobb, Just Catherine, and Schleiemacher. But I enjoy reading from conservatives as well as liberals, because neither has the corner on truth.

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Cameron

This in ebook format is awesome

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2017

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If you're taking Theo 201 or any other Theo course online. You need this in kindle form. Control find is a life saver

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Bob Pittenger

Great book for studying Systematic Theology!

Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2016

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If you enjoy a deeper study that gives differing interpretations and then explains why the writer has their particular belief, you need to get this book!

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