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Additional Details
- Title: Systematic Theology
- Author: Lewis Sperry Chafer
- 2,880 pages
- Kregel Publications, 1993
- The original set contained 8 volumes; more recent reprints consolidated the same unabridged text into 4 volumes and an abridgement was also published at a later date. The Logos edition will contain the full, unabridged contents of the 8 volumes.
The Handbook of Evangelical Theologians (in Baker Digital Reference Library: Level 3) 
contains the following discussion of Systematic Theology that touches on its distinctives, influences, and significance:
"Systematic Theology is clearly Chafer’s magnum opus. The product of years of study under Scofield and as professor of systematic theology at Dallas, it represents the culmination of Chafer’s dream of bringing the teaching found in the Bible conferences into formal theological instruction. The work is basically Reformed in its theological orientation. There are many discussions which follow the scholastic pattern of nineteenth-century systematic theologies. Chafer’s moderate Calvinism is seen in his discussion of the decrees of God, predestination, and the atonement. His position on the inspiration and authority of Scripture is identical to that of the Old Princeton theology of Charles Hodge and B. B. Warfield, the Bible conferences, and the fundamentalist movement in general. The uniqueness of Chafer’s Systematic Theology is found in what he called its unabridged scope, which refers to its inclusion of material popularized in the Bible conferences and the Scofield Reference Bible. It claimed to be the first premillennial systematic theology; and by virtue of its inclusion of various emphases of the Scofield Reference Bible, Chafer’s work was also seen as the first dispensational systematic theology (“dispensational” is here a reference to the views expressed in Scofield’s notes)."
Elwell, W. A., & Elwell, W. A. (1997, c1993). Handbook of Evangelical Theologians (electronic ed.). Grand Rapids: Baker Book House.
Writing in Bibliotheca Sacra in 1934, Chafer set out his vision for an unabridged systematic theology (along with the "Evils Resulting from an Abridged Systematic Theology"). He began by defining systematic theology as "the collecting, systematically arranging, comparing, exhibiting and defending of all facts concerning God and His works from any and every source." Chafer went on to outline the most important subjects that should be covered in an unabridged systematic theology: bibliology (facts about the Scriptures), theology proper (God), angelology (angels unfallen and fallen), anthropology (mankind), soteriology (doctrine of sin), ecclesiology (doctrine of the church), and eschatology (things to come).
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Praise for the Print Edition
Chafer's eight volume Systematic Theology is skillfully written from a premillennial, dispensational view. He not only beautifully covers all the disciplines from Theology Proper to Eschatology, but also the various uses of the word "theology" as well as the eight Biblical Covenants and the Dispensations. It is a comprehensive work on each topic but not written in a lofty manner which would be tedious for the reader. Chafer has made the study of Systematic Theology alive and exciting.
—Amazon reviewer
About the Author
Lewis Sperry Chafer (1871-1952), American Presbyterian clergyman and educator, was born in Rock Creek, Ohio, studied at New Lyme Academy in Ohio, at Oberlin (Ohio) Conservatory and College, and under C. I. Scofield. Ordained in 1900, he was a traveling evangelist from 1900-1914, and a Bible lecturer from 1914-1924. He also taught Bible at the Philadelphia School of the Bible from 1914-1923. In 1924, he founded the Evangelical Theological College (now Dallas Theological Seminary) and was its president and professor of systematic theology until his death.
Dr. Chafer was also the author of Satan: His Motives and Methods, The Kingdom in History and Prophecy, Salvation, He That Is Spiritual, Grace, Major Bible Themes, The Ephesian Letter, and the multi-volume Systematic Theology. For many years he was also the editor of the theological journal Bibliotheca Sacra.
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