Systematic Theology: A Compendious View of Natural and Revealed Religion

“Of John Brown of Haddington Dr. William Blaikie says that he towered above his fellows. Dr. David Wright describes him as having the makings of a universal scholar. His biographer calls him one of the best remembered names in the Scottish theology of the eighteenth century. Yet today the name of John Brown is all but forgotten, notwithstanding his stature as one of the foremost teachers of covenantal Calvinism in the history of Scottish theology. All the more welcome, then, is this publication of Brown's Compendious View of Natural and Revealed Religion , his systematics. He pours both his vast learning and his deep piety into this overview, and now a new generation of covenantal theologians can sit at Brown's feet. I congratulate the publishers on the resurrection of this important work and wish it a wide circulation.”

“John Brown stands in continuity with both the Puritan and Dutch Reformed writers of the seventeenth century who assumed that theology was both a contemplative and a practical discipline and who assumed that the definition of Christian doctrine ought to build on exegesis and issue in praxis. All in all, this is a welcome reprint of a classic work, representative of a late eighteenth-century heir of the orthodox tradition of Puritan and Reformed theology.”