Manual of Christian Doctrine

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Christian Liberty Press, 2007 - 168 pages
More than ever, teenagers need to be grounded in a systematic understanding of scripture. This classic text, by Louis Berkhof, has been carefully updated to enable modern readers to comprehend and apply its teachings.

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Contents

C The Extent of the Atonement
87
D The Atonement in PresentDay Theology
88
The Doctrine of the Application of the Work of Redemption
89
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
91
Calling and Regeneration
92
C Regeneration
94
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
96
Conversion
97

Scripture
11
C The Perfections of Scripture
14
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
16
The Doctrine of God and His Creation
17
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
19
C The New Testament Names of God
20
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
21
B The Communicable Attributes
22
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
26
The Trinity
27
B The Three Persons Considered Separately
28
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
30
C Objections to the Doctrine of the Decree
31
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
32
Predestination
33
C The Question of Supraand Infralapsarianism
34
Creation
35
B The Spiritual World
37
C The Material World
39
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
41
Providence
42
B The Elements of Providence in Particular
43
C Extraordinary Providences or Miracles
44
The Doctrine of Man in Relation to God
45
B The Origin of the Soul in Each Individual
46
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
47
B Man in the Covenant of Works
48
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
50
Man in the State of Sin
51
B The Essential Character of Sin
52
C Divergent Views of Sin
53
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
54
B Original and Actual Sin
55
C The Universality of Sin
56
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
57
Man in the Covenant of Grace
58
B The Son in the Covenant of Redemption
59
C Requirements and Promises in the Covenant of Redemption
60
The Covenant of Grace
61
B The Promises and Requirements of the Covenant of Grace
62
C The Characteristics of the Covenant
63
D The Relation of Christ to the Covenant of Grace
64
F The Different Dispensations of the Covenant
65
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
67
The Doctrine of the Person and Work of Christ
69
D The Name Son of God
70
The Natures of Christ
71
B The Unity of the Person of Christ
72
C Some of the Most Important Errors in the Doctrine of Christ
73
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
74
The States of Christ
75
B The State of Exaltation
77
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
79
The Work of Christ
80
B The Priestly Office
81
C The Kingly Office
83
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
84
The Atonement through Christ
85
B The Nature of the Atonement
86
C The Elements of Conversion
98
E The Author of Conversion
99
Faith
100
C The Elements of Faith
101
D The Object of Saving Faith
102
Justification
103
C The Elements of Justification
104
E The Time of Justification
105
F The Ground of Justification
106
Sanctification
107
C The Characteristics of Sanctification
108
E The Imperfect Character of Sanctification in This Life
109
Perseverance of the Saints
111
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
112
The Doctrine of the Church and the Means of Grace
113
C The Manysided Character of the Church
114
E The Church in the Different Eras of History
115
G The Notes or Characteristic Marks of the Church
116
The Government of the Church
117
B The Fundamental Principles of the Reformed Presbyterian System
118
C The Officers of the Church
119
D The Ecclesiastical Assemblies
120
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
121
The Power of the Church
122
C Different Kinds of Church Power
123
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
124
The Means of Grace
125
C The Two Parts of the Word as a Means of Grace
126
The Sacraments in General
127
C The Component Parts of the Sacraments
128
F The Number of the Sacraments
129
Christian Baptism
130
C The Lawful Administrators of Baptism
131
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
133
The Lords Supper
134
D The Efficacy of the Lords Supper as a Means of Grace
135
E The Person for Whom the Lords Supper is Designed
136
The Doctrine of the Last Things
137
The Intermediate State
138
B The Doctrine of Purgatory of the Limbus Patrum and of the Limbus Infantum
139
D The Doctrine of Annihilation and of Conditional Immortality
140
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
141
B The Second Coming Itself
143
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
144
B The Resurrection
147
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
148
The Last Judgment and the Final State
149
B The Final State
150
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
152
The Heidelberg Catechism
153
Deliverance
154
GOD THE FATHER
155
GOD THE SON
156
GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT
158
THE SACRAMENTS
160
THE LORDS SUPPER
161
Gratitude
163
PRAYER
166
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Page 32 - GOD from all eternity did by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass : yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.
Page 74 - Mans nature, with all the essential properties and common infirmities thereof, yet without sin, being conceived by the power of the holy Ghost, in the womb of the Virgin Mary of her substance : So that two whole perfect and distinct natures, the Godhead and the Manhood, were inseparably joyncd together in one Person, without conversion, composition, or confusion ; which Person is very God and very Man, yet one Christ, the only Mediator between God and Man.
Page 163 - You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.
Page 35 - These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed ; and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.
Page 111 - They went out from us, but they were not of us ; for if they had been of us, they would no doiibt have continued with us : but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
Page 62 - And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his peoples, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God...
Page 122 - There is no other head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ : nor can the Pope of Eome, in any sense, be head thereof ; but is that, Antichrist, that man of sin and son of perdition that exalteth himself in the Church against Christ, and all that is called God. IV. There is no other head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 10 - ALTHOUGH the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence, do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men inexcusable ; yet they are not sufficient to give that knowledge of God, and of his will, which is necessary unto salvation...

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