Systematic Theology

Rich in content and stimulating in style, Dabney's work continues to be tremendously helpful. The fact that his Systematic Theology, first published in 1871, is now in its ninth edition is proof in itself that the volume is not superfluous.

Planter, quarryman, builder, teacher, pastor, architect, theologian, writer, army chaplain, soldier, husband, and father Robert Lewis Dabney (1820-1898) was all of these, and more. His long career as a teacher of systematic theology began in 1859 when he was appointed Adjunct (from 1869, full) Professor of Systematic Theology at Union, a post in which he was to serve, through the Civil War, until 1883 in spite of offers (in 1860) of the prestigious pulpit of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York, and a position as Professor of Church History on the faculty of Princeton Theological Seminary.