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Augustus Hopkins Strong is one of the most notable Baptist theologians of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His theology combined traditional Reformed emphases with Baptist convictions, nonetheless open to modern thought. Renowned for his work in Systematic Theology, Strong has influenced generations of believers with his focused historical criticism of the Scriptures. Now, in this 11-volume collection, you have access to this American theologian and professor’s insights, observations, and wisdom.
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During Augustus Hopkins Strong’s 40-year tenure at Rochester Theological Seminary, a daily noon prayer meeting occurred. These meetings, 15 to 20 minutes in length, invited students and faculty to share their thoughts, prayers, and devotions. In his last year as president of the institution, all of Strong’s daily addresseswere faithfully transcribed; now they’re available, edited by Strong himself, along with talks from earlier years. Included are two autobiographical addresses.
After completing his tenure at Rochester Theological Seminary, Augustus Hopkins Strong and his wife took a six-month tour to visit the missions where his former students served. This faithfully-written, week-by-week chronicle of the journey records his adventure and offers his observations and reflections on his time spent abroad.
Augustus Hopkins Strong presents a series of essays that address the ideas of philosophy and religion. “It is a confession of faith—a long one indeed, yet none the less sincere,” he writes in the preface. This work, his “uncompromising assertion of faith in the existence of God,” seeks to present truth in a collection of previously unprinted essays.
A collection of addresses, sermons, and essays from Augustus Hopkins Strong’s 40-year tenure at Rochester Theological Seminary. Included is a sermon delivered at the 1905 Baptist World Convention, the 1902 commencement address at John B. Stetson University, and the dedication of Vassar College’s chapel in 1904.
A collection of addresses, sermons, and essays from Augustus Hopkins Strong’s 40-year tenure at Rochester Theological Seminary. Included are lectures delivered at the McCormick Theological Seminary in 1911, 13 years of Rochester Theological Seminary commencement addresses, and sermons preached in Baptist churches across the state of New York.
In this treatise on faith, Augustus Hopkins Strong expounds on salient points from his Systematic Theology, discussing in depth God as Spirit, Christ’s role in creation, the ideas of holiness and sin, and more.
This volume contains a stenographic report of lectures delivered to a large Sunday school class, presenting an informal examination of history and exegesis geared to that audience. Augustus Hopkins Strong makes such topics as the life of Christ and the origin of the Gospels accessible in this series of talks.
Augustus Hopkins Strong discusses Christ’s role in creation and the effect of monism, a metaphysical point of view which argues that all existing things in the universe can be reduced to one substance, therefore making the fundamental character of the universe unity. He examines the possibilities of a monism that makes room for God, as well as its ethical and moral implications.
In State and Church in 1492 and in 1892, Augustus Hopkins Strong examines the relationships and progress of civil and religious liberty over a period of 400 years. He pays special attention to American Christianity and looks at its role and influence on the progression.
Augustus Hopkins Strong’s personal recollections of Henry A. Ward. He examines the life and influence of this American naturalist and geologist, taking great pains to understand the life and work of this former Rochester professor.
In American Poets and Their Theology, Strong examines the lives and work of nine American poets. He provides close readings of their poems, analyzing them through an evangelical lens. Strong examines the work of William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sidney Lanier, and Walt Whitman.
Augustus Hopkins Strong (1836–1921), a Reformed Baptist, was president and professor of biblical theology at the Rochester Theological Seminary. His classic three-volume Systematic Theology is still widely used and cited.
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