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SKELETONS

THEOLOGICAL LECTURES.

PROFESSOR OF DIDACTIC, POLEMIC, AND PASTORAL THEOLOGY, IN THE OBERLIN

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY JAMES STEELÉ.

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ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in 1840, by

CHARLES G. FINNEY,

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In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Ohio.

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Pappan Presb. Assoc.

3-6-1933

PREFACE.

The method of giving Theological Instruction in this Institution is as follows:

1. A series of questions is propounded for discussion, comprising an outline of a system of Natural and Revealed Theology. 2. Each of these questions comes up in order, for discussion. 3. Upon each one, every member of the class is required to make up his mind, and prepare a brief statement of his views, in writing.

4. Each student is then called upon, in order, to present his views to the class, the Professor presiding. His views and statements are then made the subject of thorough examination and discussion by the class, and by the Instructor. Questions are freely asked, and difficulties started. Answers and explanations are given, until the views of the class are settled upon the point or points discussed by him. Then another, and another are called upon in a like manner to present their views, upon which, like discussion ensues, until the class have mastered the whole subject. Here the discussion is arrested, and the Professor sums up and presents the whole subject to the class in one or more lectures. The skeletons of these lectures have heretofore been copied out by each student as a kind of memoranda, to which he might in future refer, to refresh his memory. This has cost so much labor, that the students have earnestly solicited their publication. For their use and benefit, they are therefore principally intended.

To those students and others, who may read these skeletons, it may be important to make the following remarks, explanatory of what has not, and what has been my design in preparing them for the press:

1. It has been no part of my design to relieve the student from the necessity of deep study, research, and original investigation upon every topic in Theology.

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