Introduction to the Study of Dogmatics

<I>This is a <a href=http://www.eerdmans.com/Pag%20es/About/Books-on-%20Demand.aspx>print on demand</a> book and is therefore non- returnable.</I><BR /><BR /> "An introduction that aims to initiate" is how Hendrikus Berkhof describes this book in which he provides beginning students and interested general readers with a concise guide to what to expect — and what not to expect — in the field of dogmatics.<BR /><BR /> Berkhof begins by defining <I>dogma</I> and <I>dogmatics</I> and sets dogmatics in its context within the perspectives of faith and science and in time and space. He then describes the foundations of dogmatics — that is the framework within which dogmatics should be studied. Material dogmatics — the building on that foundation — is usually divided into several parts (God Christ Israel the Holy Spirit and other themes) which Berkhof examines individually in the book's final section.<BR /><BR /> In a day when Christians see a need to produce and study explanations of their faith Berkhof has provided a useful tool to enable them to understand what dogmatics really is so that they can then account for their faith in a systematic thorough and understandable way.