Reformed Dogmatics

by Heinrich Heppe

Publisher:

Wipf and Stock

, 2007

Overview

Follow pioneering German Reformed theologian Heinrich Heppe as he leads you through the major loci or doctrinal topics of Reformed theology. Address major issues such as the covenants, Scripture, divine sovereignty, the nature and person of Christ, justification, and interact with major figures in Reformed theology. Heppe, who was very influential on Karl Barth, presents Reformed theology from a very different perspective than what most English readers will be familiar with as he draws on the most important philosophical questions in nineteenth century European Protestant theology.

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Key Features

• Covers all major loci in dogmatic theology
• Presents the perspective of a leading German Protestant liberal
• Interacts extensively with pre-nineteenth-century Reformed theologians

Contents

• Natural and Revealed Theology
• Holy Scripture
• Foundation of the Doctrine of H. Scripture
• The Existence and Notion of God
• The Attributes of God
• The Holy Trinity
• The Decrees of God
• Predestination
• Creation
• Angels Good and Bad
• Man
• Providence
• The Covenant of Works and the Righteousness of the Law
• The Violation of the Covenant of Works
• Sin, or Man’s State of Corruption and Misery
• The Covenant of Grace
• The Mediator of the Covenant of Grace or the Person of Christ
• The Mediatorial Office of Jesus Christ
• Christ’s State of Exaninition and of Exaltation
• Calling
• Justification
• Sanctification
• The Fixity of the Covenant of Grace of the Perseverance and Assurance of the Saints
• Sacraments in General
• Baptism
• The Lord’s Supper
• The Church
• Glorification

Top Highlights

“Thus then we have from the very essence of God, by unchangeable principles, demonstrated three modes of subsistence or persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit; and that in such wise, that they cannot be more or fewer, unless it be denied that God is God. We shall wind up the whole proof by a single syllogism. In an essence in which there is perfect knowledge bending back upon itself, an Image is begotten and a Spirit proceeds on the impulse of the will. And yet these things inhere in the one, most single essence of God. Therefore there will be in the same essence the Begetter, the begotten Image and the proceeding Spirit’” (Pages 107–108)

“The divine attributes are not something different from the nature and existence of God, so that the latter may be thought of as distinct from the former: nor are they parts of the divine nature, so that their total makes up the unity of the divine nature; nor are they something accidental, so that God’s nature would be thinkable without the attributes; in God’s nature there is nothing which is not God Himself. Rather the attributes of God are the divine nature itself in its relation to the world. And since God is essentially nothing else but absolutely single actuosity, every separate attribute of God is the identity of the whole divine being, as the latter is displayed in relation to a definite object.” (Page 57)

“To man there belongs naturally and essentially a consciousness that there is a God, and that Him he is bound to honour.—Calvin (I, iii, 1): ‘God has Himself implanted in all some kind of grasp of His ‘numen.’ ’—P. Martyr: (praef.) ‘Knowledge of God—is naturally innate in the minds of all.’—Burmann (I, ii, 16): ‘Religion flows from the very nature of God and man; hence religion is the necessary and natural sequel to reason, and so natural religion datur (is something given).’” (Page 1)

Product Details

• Title: Reformed Dogmatics
• Author: Heinrich Heppe
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Print Publication Date: 2007
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Pages: 729
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Theology, doctrinal › History--16th century; Theology, doctrinal › History--17th century; Reformed Church › Doctrines--History--16th century
• ISBNs: 9781556357756, 1556357753
• Resource ID: LLS:HEPPEREFDOGMATICS
• Resource Type: Systematic Theology
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:29:44Z

About Heinrich Heppe

Heinrich Ludwig Julius Heppe (March 30, 1820, Kassel, Hesse-Kassel – July 25, 1879) was a German Calvinist theologian and church historian. In 1844 he earned his doctorate from the University of Marburg, where he was a student of Orientalist Hermann Hupfeld (1796–1866). From 1845 he served as a pastor at St. Martin Church in Kassel. In 1850 he became an associate professor of theology at Marburg, where in 1864 he attained full professorship.