Baier's Compendium: Basic Structure
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Prolegomena
- 1: The nature and definition of theology
- 2: The principle of revealed theology, or Sacred Scripture
Part 1
- 1: God
- 2: Creation
- 3: Angels
- 4: The image of God collected in the first creation of humans
- 5: The providence of God
- 6: Eternal blessedness
- 7: Death or eternal damnation
- 8: Temporal death
- 9: The resurrection of the dead
- 10: The last judgment and the end of the world
Part 2
- 1: Sin in general
- 2: Original sin
- 3: Actual sins
Part 3
- 1: The grace of God towards fallen humans, the first principle of our salvation
- 2: Christ, the principal and foundation of our salvation
- 3: Faith in Christ
- 4: Regeneration and conversion
- 5: Justification
- 6: Renewal and good works
- 7: The word of law and gospel
- 8: The sacraments in general
- 9: The sacraments of the Old Testament
- 10: Baptism
- 11: The holy supper
- 12: Predestination and reprobation
- 13: The church
- 14: The ecclesiastical ministry
- 15: The political magistrates
- 16: The domestic state and society, and especially the state of marriage, parents, and masters
- From: Joh. Guilielmi Baieri Compendium Theologiae Positivae, adjectis notis amplioribus, quibus doctrina orthodoxa ad paideian academicam explicatur atque ex Scriptura S. eique innixis rationibus theologicis confirmatur, denuo edendum curavit Carol. Ferd. Guil. Walther, ss. theologiae doctor et professor. Editio auctior et emendatior. (4 vols). In urbe Sancti Ludovici ex officina Synodi Missouriensis Lutheranae (Luth. Concordia-Verlag.) MDCCCLXXIX.
