Topics for study... Building the basis for a systematic theology

This is an organized and logical index of various topics with each having its corresponding articles / lessons. This organization enables you to study a topic within the context of the Bible.

Is this systematic theology? No. However, this is an example of how one can begin building the basis for their own organized view of theology. This example is to encourage you to develop a thorough and comprehensive systematic theology.

Theology (what Christians believe) is the basis for Ethics (how Christians ought to apply what they believe) which leads to Experience and Practice (what Christians do). Don't get it backwards; experience and practice does not replace the Bible as the basis of theology!

Articles are rated by their literary ease: easiest (+) to more academic (+++).
[Note: None of us will arrive at a perfect theology... Read more]

God

Jesus Christ

Holy Spirit

Bible

Angels

Human Beings

Overview
Systematic Theology - Anthropology: Man From Birth to Death (2009) +
Creation of Human Beings
God Created Human Beings in His Image and for Immortality
  Observing the Creation of Man (2005) +
  Why Did God Create Man? (2008) +
  Observing the Fall of Man (2005) +
  The Human Body (2008) +
  What does the biblical term "soul" mean? (2008) +
  One, Two, Three… How many parts can man be? (2009) +
  The Immaterial Aspect of Humanity… heart and mind (2009) +
  The Sixteen Grandsons of Noah (H. Hunt with R. Grigg, 2001) +
  Disciple Making - Three Types of People (K. Payne, 2006) +
  Who are the people of faith in the Bible? (2013) +
Created as Moral Beings
Parts of the Body as a Moral Aspect of Humanity
The heart is desperately sick; who can understand it? (2004) +
Literary devices and figures of speech…communicating with images… (2001) +
Relation to other Created Beings
Created Order
  Gentiles and Divine Covenants (2002) ++
  Strangers, aliens, foreigners, and gentiles…oh my! (2003) +
  Is there a hierarchy among personal beings? (2004) +
Death of Human Beings
Distinction Between Body and Soul
  Why Do People Die? (2008) +
  Fate of Your Soul (Part 1): What did Old Testament Believers think of life after death? (2009) +
  Fate of Your Soul (Part 2): What and Where is Sheol? (2009) +
  Fate of Your Soul (Part 3): The Intermediate State: Soul Sleep… Does it exist? (2009) +
  Fate of Your Soul (Part 4): The Intermediate State: Purgatory… Does it exist? (2009) +
  Fate of Your Soul (Part 5): What happens to the spirit or soul when people die? (2009) +
  Fate of Your Soul (Part 6): Which heaven do Christians go to? (2019) +
  Fate of Your Soul (Part 7): What is the difference: Hades, Hell, and the Lake of Fire? (2023) +
  What do you make of resuscitations?! (2009) +
  The Encyclical Epistle of the Church at Smyrna, Concerning the Martyrdom of St. Polycarp (2008) +
  Understanding 1 Peter 3:18-20… When Jesus was crucified, did He go to Hell? (2008) +
  What is a Resurrection? (2020) ++

Sin

Salvation

Christian Living

The Church

Eschatology: The End Times and End of Human History

Creeds, Confessions and Statements

Creeds (Universal for most denominations)
  The Apostles Creed +
  The confusion posed by the Apostles' Creed: Did Jesus descend into Hell? (2008) +
  The Nicene Creed +
  The Athanasian Creed +
Confessions
Anglican
  Thirty-Nine Articles +++
Baptist
  The 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith +++
Lutheran (Book of Concord)
  Augsburg Confession +++
  Smalcald Articles +++
  Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope +++
  Luther's Small and Large Catechisms +++
  Epitome of the Formula of Concord +++
Presbyterian
  Westminster Confession of Faith +++
  Westminster Shorter Catechism +++
  Westminster Larger Catechism +++
Reformed
  The Belgic Confession +++
  The Canons of Dordt +++
  The Second Helvetic Confession +++
  The Heidelberg Catechism +++
Statements
The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy (1978) +++
The Chicago Statement on Biblical Hermeneutics (1982) +++

Scripture Index... Researching for biblical context:

Scripture Index

Index of Archaeological and Epigraphic points of interest... Seeking historical facts and evidence of the truth:

Biblical Archaeology Index

Index of Authors... "As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another":

Author Index

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