Systematic Theology
By: Rousas John Rushdoony
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume I
Dedication
Introduction
I. Infalibility
1. Infallibility: An Inescapable Concept
2. Infallibility and Immanence
3. The Dependent Word of Man
4. Infallibility and Meaning
5. The Canon of Covenant Law
6. The Command Word
7. Infallible Man
8. The Infallible Act and Word
9. The Infallible Movement
10. Who Speaks the Word?
11. The Word of Dominion
12. The Word of Flux
13. The Word and History
14. The Infallible Word
15. Moloch Man and the Word of God
16. Infallibility and the World of Faith
II. The Necessity for Systematic Theology
1. The Necessity for Systematic
Theology
2. Causality and Systematics
3. The Systematics of Common Life
4. The Coherency of Scripture
5. The Limits of Systematic Theology
6. Abstract Theology
7. Systematics and Possibility
8. Systematics and Proof
9. Practical Systematics
10. Faith
11. Systematic Anthropology
12. Inevitable Systematics
13. Neoplatonic Systematics
14. The Goal of Systematics
15. Systematics and Lordship
16. The Search for a Master Principle
17. Abstractionism
18. Seminary Systematics
19. Anti-Abstractionism
III. Creation and Providence
1. Creation and Holiness
2. The Goodness of Creation
3. Creation and Providence
4. The Joy of Creation in Providence
5. Neoplatonism and Providence
6. Creation as Revelation
7. Calvin on Providence
8. Naturalistic Providence
9. Providence and Historiography
10. The Unity of Our Faith
11. Providence and Prayer
12. Creationism and Prayer
13. Providence, Faith, and Piety
14. Providence and the Sabbath
15. Creation, Providence, and
Responsibility
16. Creation, Providence, and
Eschatology
17. Humanistic Providence
IV. The Doctrine of God
1. The Doctrine of God
2. The Trinity and Subordination
3. God, Logic and Reality
4. The Incomprehensibility of God
5. God’s Eternalness
6. The Aseity of God
7. Idolatry
8. God the Father
9. God the Son
10. God the Spirit
11. Sovereignty, Government, and
Providence
12. God and Creation
13. Predestination
14. “Why Hast Thou Mad Me Thus?”
V. The Doctrine of Christ
1. “The Seed of the Woman”
2. The Promise to Abraham
3. Shiloh
4. Dominion
5. The Prophet
6. The Lion and His Cubs
7. The Canopy
8. The Wonderful Counselor
9. Rights
10. Our New Adam, Jesus Christ
11. Jesus Christ as Lord
12. The Cosmic Christ
13. The Wisdom of God
14. The Word
15. The Divine Exegesis
16. “The Alpha and the Omega”
17. Christ the Savior
18. The Ruler
19. The Great High Priest
20. The Great Prophet
21. The King
22. King Adam II
VI. The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
1. The Giver of Life
2. The Spirit and the Kingdom
3. The Spirit of Jubilee
4. The Spirit and Bezaleel
5. Saul and the Spirit
6. The Spirit and Epistemology
7. The Spirit and the Incarnation
8. The Coming of the Spirit
9. The Presence of the Spirit
10. Power
11. The Unchanging Spirit
12. The Sin Against the Spirit
13. “The Communion of the Holy Ghost”
14. The Spirit and Authority
15. The Spirit of Adoption
16. The Spirit and the Resurrection
17. “Try the Spirits”
18. The Weak and the Strong
19. The Spirit, the Law, and Judgment
20. “Grieve Not the Holy Spirit of God”
21. “Quench Not the Spirit”
22. “I Will Not Leave You Orphans”
23. The Fruits of the Spirit
VII. The Covenant
1. The Covenant
2. Is There a Covenant of Works?
3. The Covenant and Land
4. Covenant Faithfulness
5. The Blood of the Covenant
6. Covenant Curses and Blessings
7. The Kinsman-Redeemer
8. The Cities of Refuge
9. Covenant Celebrations
10. Oath and Covenant
11. The Civil Government
12. Blood and Life
13. The Covenant and Seed
14. The Covenant and Election
15. The Marriage Covenant
16. The Plague of Blood
17. The Covenant and the Name
18. Breaking the Covenant
19. The Covenant and the Body
20. The Covenant and the Mediator
21. Messiahship, Covenant, and
Sovereignty
22. Covenant Salvation
VIII. The Theological Nature of Sin
1. The Religious Nature of Sin
2. The Origin of Sin
3. Total Depravity
4. Sin as Deprivation
5. Sin and Society
6. Sin as Personal Fulfillment
7. Sin and Matter
8. Sin and False Perfectionism
9. Sin as a Political Asset
10. Fables
11. The Views of Sin as Virtues
12. Sin and Sins
13. Sin and Fantasy
14. Sin and Passover
15. Sin as Privilege and Right
16. The Kingdom of Sin, or the Kingdom
of Man
17. Sin and Law (1)
18. Sin and the Law (2)
19. Sin and Desecration
20. The Eschatology of Sin
21. Sin and Righteousness
22. The Lie
IX. The Ordo Salutis 6. Blood
1. The Ordo Salutis 7. Sacrifice
2. Salvation 8. Legal Satisfaction
3. Humanistic Salvation 9. Imputation and Sacrifice
4. Salvation: Anthropology or 10. The Doctrine of Ransom
Theology? 11. Forgiveness
5. Cosmic Salvation 12. Sado-Masochism
6. Polytheistic Salvation 13. The Unatoned
7. The Evangel or Gospel 14. The Atoned
8. Election
9. Predestination XI. Justification
10. Regeneration 1. Justification
11. Effectual Calling 2. The Sociology of Justification
12. Conversion: Faith and Repentance 3. Justification by Faith
13. Justification 4. False Justification
14. Sanctification 5. Repression
15. Preservation 6. Justification by Law
16. Perseverance 7. Justification by Victimization
17. Glorification (1) 8. Toleration and Intolerance
18. Glorification (2) 9. “The Just Shall Live By Faith”
19. Glorification (3) 10. Justification and the Will to Fiction
20. Glorification (4) 11. Justification by Indictment
21. “Feed My Sheep” 12. The Person of God
13. Justification and History
X. Atonement 14. Justification and Eternity
1. Expiation and Atonement 15. Pragmatic Justification
2. Our Atonement by Jesus Christ 16. Justification and Logic
3. Atonement and Responsibility 17. Justification and the Doctrine of God
4. Vicarious Sacrifice 18. Justification and the Freedom of Man
5. Imputation in Christ
 Volume II
XII. Doctrine of the Church
1. Introduction
2. Faith and the Church
3. Circumcision
4. Government
5. Training for Governing
6. The Passover
7. The Sabbath
8. The Assembly or Congregation
9. The Holy Assembly
10. The House of God
11. Ministers
12. Presbyters
13. Ritual
14. The Laying of Hands
15. The Joyful and Healing Church
16. Authority
17. Fringes and Tassels
18. Baptism
19. Communion
20. The Ark and the Presence
21. Laymen and the Church
22. Woman and the church
23. The Foundation Rock
24. Loosing and Binding
25. One Flock, One Shepherd
26. Apostolic Succession
27. Unity
28. The Church of the Resurrection
29. The Church as Witness
30. The Church as Property and
Function
XIII. Eschatology
1. The Meaning of Eschatology
2. The Eschaton and Man
3. Law and Eschatology
4. Eschatology and the Covenant
5. Eschatology of Everyday Life
6. Eschatology in “Nature”
7. The Restoration of Earth
8. The Eschatology of Covenant
Man
9. Captivity and Restoration
10. The Eschatology of Bones
11. The Restoration of God’s Order
12. Eschatology and Prayer
13. Eschatology and Causality
14. The Necessary Connection
15. Motivation
16. The Real presence and
Eschatology
17. The Body
18. The Body and Christ
19. The body of Humiliation
20. “A Body Hast Thou Prepared For
me”
21. The Resurrection Body
22. Judgment as Process and Event
23. Judgment as Crisis
24. The Covenant Consummation:
The Last Judgment
25. The Covenant consummation:
Paradise
26. The Eschatology of Hell
27. The Second Coming of Jesus
Christ
28. The New Creation
29. Typology and Eschatology
30. Eschatology and Man’s Kingly
Office
31. Eschatology and Man’s Priestly
Office
32. Eschatology and Man’s Prophetic
Office
XIV. The Doctrine of Man
1. “A Little Lower Than Judges”
2. “What is Man?”
3. Christ’s Resurrection and the
Doctrine of Man
4. The Predetermined Life of Man
5. Male and Female
6. The Blessing of Man
7. God’s Oath-Man
8. Citizens of Life or Death
9. Adam and Christ
10. Man in Adam and Christ
11. “After The Image”
12. Man’s “Rights”
13. Non-Private Man
14. Non-Public Man
 15. Guilt and Freedom
16. Guilt and the Slave Society
17. Man’s System
18. The Culmination of Man’s System
19. Life and Death
XV. Theology of the Land
1. Atonement for the Land
2. The Dominion Mandate
3. The Curse and the Covenant
4. God and the Land
5. The Law of Diverse Kinds
6. The Redemption of the Land
7. The Land and the Poor
8. Communion and Community
9. The Sabbath of the Land and Man
10. Debt and the Future
11. The Covenant and Land
12. Sacred Land
13. The Holy Spirit and the Tithe
14. Freedom and the Land
15. Salvation and the Land
16. The Land of Holiness
17. The Land Defiled
18. Man Defiled
19. Disinheritance
20. Judgment
XVI. Theology of Work
1. Vocation and Work
2. Work and the Curse
3. Government as a Monopoly, or,
The Politics of Death
4. Work and Confusion
5. Bramble Men
6. The Babel State
7. The Work of Christ
8. Work Versus Theft
9. Work and Dominion
10. Work and Just Measures
11. The Eschatology of Work
12. Holy Offices
13. Hierarchical Work
14. The Work Ethic
15. Work, Rest, and Leisure
16. The Clean Society
17. Work and Rest
18. The Prophetic Nature of Work
19. Faith and Work
XVII. Time
1. The Moral Question
2. Eternity and Time
3. Time and History
4. Time, History, and Meaning
5. The Infallibility of Time
6. Time and Apostolic Succession
7. Dreams and Determination of
Time
8. The Philosophy of Time and the
Sabbath
9. Time and the Idea
10. Calendar Time
11. Time, Sin, and Death
12. Biblical Time and History
13. The Logic of Time
14. The Hatred of Time
15. Theological Time
16. Future Time
XVIII. Authority
1. Author and Authority
2. Man’s Relationship to Authority
3. “The Power of His Resurrection”
4. “The Spirit of Adoption”
5. Living Under Authority
6. Authority and Power
7. Undermining Authority
8. Authority and False
Responsibility
9. Authority and Ministry
10. “By What Authority?”
11. The Purpose of Authority
12. The Source of authority
13. Authority, Primary and Secondary
14. The Cherubim
15. The Seraphim
16. Satanic Authority
17. Authority, Justice, and Men
18. The Power to Kill
19. Authority and Life
 XIX. Prayer
1. Payer
2. Matthew 6:8 and Prayer
3. John Calvin on Prayer
4. The Cure for Blindness
5. “Hallowed By Thy Name:” Prayer and the Future
6. “Give Us This Day:” Prayer and the Present
7. Forgiveness and Prayer
8. “Lead Us Not into Temptation:” Reality and Prayer
9. The Doxology
10. Asking and Receiving
11. Prayer and Gratitude

Scripture Texts
Index