An Introduction to Dogmatic Theology
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Overview
An Introduction to Dogmatic Theology treats the definition, contents, method, and history of dogmatics. It offers a complete, concise history of dogmatics including a sketch of contemporary writers of dogmatic theology. Weidner states: “The book itself is the outgrowth of work in the classroom, and has been prepared to meet the wants of my students, and is published in the hope that it may be of some service not only to other theological students, and to the English-speaking ministers of the evangelical Lutheran church, but may be of interest even to those who are not of the same confession of faith.”
It is certainly most gratifying that in the midst of so much indifference to creeds as is manifested in this age, and so much opposition to the positive teachings of the church, there should yet be such a demand for a work of this description as to call for a second edition . . . This work does not present a system of Christian theology, but simply an introduction to such a system, and as such will be of general interest to all biblical students of whatever branch of the Christian church. This new edition has been carefully revised, and much of it rewritten with special reference to the literature of the subject, and with a view to bring it up to date.
—Christian Work: Illustrated Family Newspaper
Revere Franklin Weidner (1851–1915) was educated at Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, where he both graduated and was ordained in 1873. In 1887, he received his doctorate of divinity from Carthage College in Illinois, and became a tutor at Muhlenberg College in 1868. He went on to pastor Phillipsburg Lutheran Church from 1873 to 1878, and then taught English language and history at Muhlenberg College from 1875 to 1877. He was director of the Theological Seminary in Philadelphia in 1882 and frequently served as delegate on the General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. He was a member of the American Philological Association, the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, and the American Oriental Society, and in his last years, served as professor of systematic theology and exegesis at Augustana Swedish-English Theological Seminary.