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Title: Systematic Theology (2 Volume Set) by R. J. Rushdoony ISBN: 1-879998-03-3 Publisher: Ross House Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $70.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Not all that systematic
Comment: This is a good book. There are many worthwhile insights. But, it could use a good editing. The chapters were in many cases (all?) delivered first as lectures. I listened to the ones on "justification", "guilt", and "atonement" years ago. They were profound. As they show up in the book now, they lack the same force and read more like random newsletter articles than ideas which connect and build on each other. Don't throw away your other theological tomes, but supplement them with this one.

Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent, peerless systematic theology
Comment: Rushdoony has written a profound and challenging work that should challenge the way we think about and do theology. One quote will illustrate the whole method of this work,

"The most serious mistake we can make with reference to expiation and atonement is to assume that htese are ecclesiastical concerns whose sole reference is to a particular institution, the church or Christian synagogue, and its doctrine of Christ . . . . Whether or not men believe in God, they are inescapably tied to Him in all their being . . . . By his sin and unbelief, man makes himself morally estranged from God, and at war with God . . . . [I]n spite of himself, man cannot depart one iota from the conditions of life and being as they are ordained by God (pg. 563ul)."

In other words, it's not simply a matter of whether we will have a god or not, atonement or not, justification or not, infalliblity or not. We will have all of these either as God has intended them or as counterfeited in some way. These are inescapable concepts.

Rushdoony illustrates at length that Christian doctrine is not something academic or simply for church. Rather, it is the key to understanding the life and movement of God's world, our own psychology, and the life of every society.

Rating: 4
Summary: It have different approach than other ST.
Comment: Just like the theology fo work, of land, of time. This is very important subject I ever seen!