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The doctrinal stream in which Boyce’s views are found can rightly be called Calvinistic or Reformed. He, like most early Southern Baptist leaders, was clearly convinced of the doctrines of sovereign grace. John Broadus, Boyce’s friend and colleague, made this observation about what he called “that exalted system of Pauline truth” expounded in Boyce’s Abstract:
The people who sneer at what is called Calvinism, might as well sneer at Mont Blanc. We are not bound in the least to defend all of Calvin’s opinions or actions, but I do not see how any one who really understands the Greek of the Apostle Paul or the Latin of Calvin or Turretin can fail to see that these latter did but interpret and formulate substantially what the former teaches.
May the Lord use this book from the pen of one of the greatest Southern Baptists ever to live to promote reformation and revival throughout churches everywhere.
– Tom Ascol (from the introduction to the 2006 edition)
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Abstract of Systematic Theology
By James P. Boyce
First Published in 1887
©2025 by Founders Press
ISBN 9781965810217
624 pages (Clothbound Hard Cover)
A reprint of Boyce’s classic work — a concise systematic theology by the principle founder of the first Southern Baptist seminary. Appendices include: “A Brief Catechism of Bible Doctrine,” Abstract of Principles and a Scripture Index.
Contents
A Brief History of James Petigru Boyce by Tom Nettles
Introduction to the 2006 Edition
Introduction to the 1977 Edition
CHAPTER 1: THE SCIENCE OF THEOLOGY
CHAPTER 2: THE BEING OF GOD
CHAPTER 3: REASON AND REVELATION
CHAPTER 4: THE UNITY OF GOD
CHAPTER 5: THE SPIRITUALITY OF GOD
CHAPTER 6: DIVINE ATTRIBUTES
CHAPTER 7: THE IMMUTABILITY OF GOD
CHAPTER 8: THE POWER OF GOD
CHAPTER 9: THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
CHAPTER 10: HOLINESS, GOODNESS, LOVE AND TRUTH
CHAPTER 11: THE JUSTICE OF GOD
CHAPTER 12: THE WILL OF GOD
CHAPTER 13: THE DECREES OF GOD
CHAPTER 14: THE TRINITY
CHAPTER 15: THE PERSONAL RELATIONS IN TRINITY
CHAPTER 16: THE OUTWARD RELATIONS OF THE TRINITY
CHAPTER 17: CREATION
CHAPTER 18: CREATION OF ANGELS
CHAPTER 19: FALLEN ANGELS
CHAPTER 20: CREATION OF MAN
CHAPTER 21: PROVIDENCE
CHAPTER 22: THE FALL OF MAN
CHAPTER 23: EFFECTS OF THE SIN OF ADAM
CHAPTER 24: THE HEADSHIP OF ADAM
CHAPTER 25: CHRIST IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
CHAPTER 26: THE PERSON OF CHRIST
CHAPTER 27: THE OFFICES OF CHRIST
CHAPTER 28: THE ATONEMENT OF CHRIST
CHAPTER 29: ELECTION
CHAPTER 30: REPROBATION
CHAPTER 31: OUTWARD AND EFFECTUAL CALLING
CHAPTER 32: REGENERATION AND CONVERSION
CHAPTER 33: REPENTANCE
CHAPTER 34: FAITH
CHAPTER 35: JUSTIFICATION
CHAPTER 36: ADOPTION
CHAPTER 37: SANCTIFICATION
CHAPTER 38: FINAL PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS
CHAPTER 39: DEATH AND THE SOUL’S IMMORTALITY
CHAPTER 40: CHRIST’S SECOND COMING, AND THE RESURRECTION
CHAPTER 41: THE FINAL JUDGEMENT
CHAPTER 42: THE FINAL STATES OF THE RIGHTEOUS, AND THE WICKED
A BRIEF CATECHISM OF BIBLE DOCTRINE
ABSTRACT OF PRINCIPLES
SCRIPTURE INDEX
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