BiblicalTraining: A Full Seminary Systematic Theology, Free
A full seminary course in systematic theology, taught by a working professor and free of charge, with no fee and no enrolment. BiblicalTraining.org hosts Systematic Theology I and II with Bruce Ware, forty-four lectures in the first course alone, inside a library of more than 180 classes and some 2,300 hours of instruction.
This is not a summary site or a devotional. The courses are the same lectures given in a graduate classroom, recorded and released.
What you actually get
Ware works through the standard loci in sequence: revelation and Scripture: the doctrine of God, Trinity, creation and providence, humanity and sin, the person and work of Christ, salvation, the church and last things. Lecture audio, and in most courses a transcript and outline.
Doing it properly takes months. Doing it at all puts you ahead of most people who have opinions about systematic theology, because you will have seen the whole map rather than the three doctrines your tradition argues about.
Say the confessional location out loud
Bruce Ware is a Reformed Baptist, and on the gifts he is broadly cessationist. A Pentecostal student should know that before pressing play, and should not be surprised when the pneumatology section closes doors it never opens.
That is a reason to listen carefully, not a reason to skip it. Ware is a careful and fair teacher, and hearing the cessationist case argued at its strongest is worth more than a hundred rebuttals of its weakest form. Take the architecture of the system, and argue with the pneumatology.
How to use it beside the Pentecostal sources
- Use it for structure, not for verdicts. What a course like this teaches best is how the loci hang together — which question comes before which.
- Read a Pentecostal treatment of each locus afterwards. Take the doctrine of the Spirit from Ware, then read it against the journals listed in this section. The disagreement becomes precise instead of tribal.
- Take notes in your own vocabulary. Rewriting a lecture in your own words is where the learning happens.
- Do one course to the end. Half a systematic theology is worse than none: you get the categories without the connections.
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Systematic Theology I — Bruce WareThe full free library
