Systematic Theology 1.1 (The Being of God)

The full text of Berkhof’s Systematic Theology, Part 1, Section 1.

The text has been updated to UK English; gloss boxes have been added to explain technical terms; summaries have been included; and questions for further study have been added. We have also included a master outline with the part represented in this volume shown in bold.

Part One: The Doctrine of God

The Being of God

• The existence of God
• The knowability of God
• Being and attributes
• The names of God
• Attributes in general
• Incommunicable attributes
• Communicable attributes
• The Holy Trinity

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Louis Berkhof was born in the Netherlands in 1873, where his family was part of the Christian Reformed Church. In 1881, his family immigrated to Grand Rapids, in the United States. Berkhof studied at Calvin College, Calvin Seminary, and then at Princeton Seminary. From 1906 to 1944, Berkhof was professor of theology at Calvin Theological Seminary. He wrote extensively on Reformed theology. Louis Berkhof died in 1957.