Systematic Theology, Complete Edition, by Louis Berkhof is a book composed of two volumes which were originally published as separate books and often used as textbooks in seminary education around the world. The Introductory Volume to Systematic Theology provides a foundation in the history and teaching of dogmatics, which “deals with the doctrinal truth of Scripture in a systematic way, and more particularly with that truth as it is confessed by the Church” (p. 35). In this volume, Berkhof explains the principles essential for the foundation of the study of systematic theology, where God is the essential foundation and Scripture is the cognitive foundation.
The second volume in the book, Systematic Theology, is written with God as the premise, the place one begins, because theology begins with God. Everything, including systematic theological understanding, proceeds in relation from God. Systematic Theology is inductive in its approach and dogmatic in its teaching. Each doctrine begins as the premise for and the basis of the next. For example, Berkhof begins with the doctrine of God (Theology), then proceeds to the doctrine of Man (Anthropology), and
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