Compendium of Christian Theology by William Burt Pope

William Burt Pope wrote an excellent three volume systematic theology from an Arminian perspective. The first two volumes are available on Google books and I recommend them. I really like his view of grace. So few Arminian systematic theologies are available online that it really is amazing this is out there for free. Here's the links:

Volume 1
Volume 2

Here’s a little about him from Wikipedia.

William Burt Pope (1822 – 1903) was an English Christian theologian in the Methodist tradition.Ordained in 1842, Pope became a successful linguist and translator of German anti-rationalist critics. He taught at Didsbury Wesleyan College in Manchester, England from 1867 to 1886. His greatest work, Compendium of Christian Theology (1875-1876), set forth influential arguments for the "holiness doctrine of all Methodist systematic theology" and defended Methodist doctrine against its critics.

God be with you,
Dan

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Anonymous said…
Hi, Dan and Bethyada. Are you sure you are able to access those volumes through Google Books? I can't.
Here are the pdf copies of the books at a Nazarene online library.
Scroll down (or use the search function) until you get to "Pope, William Burt"
http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyctr/books/indices/index-p-authors.htm
August 11, 2008 at 7:37 AM
Godismyjudge said…
It seems that the full text is available on google books for the 1st and second volumes. The third seems to be only a description, without the text. But link Wesley provided does have the third volume as well. Thanks Wesley!

God be with you,
Dan
August 11, 2008 at 7:54 PM
bethyada said…
wesley wong, I can't even get the text for the first 2 volumes on google books.
August 12, 2008 at 5:37 AM
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