Bible Doctrine: Essential Teachings of the Christian Faith

This book has helped me in my understanding of scripture by miles and it all point back to scripture. Amazing tool for learning scripture!

A must have for your personal library and for a deeper understanding in your personal walk with the Lord. Would highly recommend, very informative and intriguing and very well thought out condensed version of Systematic theology.

This book brought together exactly what it promised- essential doctrines of the Christian faith. Each topic was well supported and explained making the contents accessible to the reader. I also appreciated the different arguments and perspective he brought to light.

It's not easy to learn all about our faith with so many distractions in the world. This book is organized well and covers the essentials I need to know.As far as the books construction; although it is a hardbound book, the paper reminds me of a paperback. And the type size for my old eyes is a little small, requiring more effort to read.I will probably end up getting the kindle so I can enlarge the type and read it easier.As an added bonus, the online extras are excellent.Recommended read and study.

This was one of my textbooks when I was a bible major. It's a great, easy to read book that is often my first "go to" for bible questions.My only problem with the book is that it is specific for a Calvinist / fundamentalist / biblical literalist approach to understanding the bible but does not announce this fact. More liberal or just plain different approaches to understanding the bible exist, but they aren't really even offered a mention in this book. So while Grudem is the champion of this systematic approach, it's kind of just a survey of how his camp approaches splits in thought on different doctrines without giving the time of day to other thinkers.

Good resource

Amazing compilation of well proven and unbiased Doctrine reporting. If you are a pastor or a lay person in the service of your Lord and Savior get this. You will find it a good read on many, MANY subjects of Bible Doctrine. Many of these are not even touched on by churches today because of controversy or political correctness. THAT is sad, and this can help you and I understand exactly what the Bible says and means! Get one today, you will be pleased with it I am sure.

I am teaching adults in EFCA church a course on Bible Doctrine. I was so pleased to learn Dr. Grudem had produced a smaller version of the huge and detailed seminary textbook to be used in local church classes for laypeople.The explanations are clearly presented in terms laypeople will understand. I was surprised at the number of people who wanted a book to follow along with my lectures and the various Bible passages. All the feedback I am getting from the class would indicate this is a good book to buy for any student of Scripture who wants clear explanations of the essentials of the faith.The adults I am teaching also are mostly age 60 or older too, just in case you are wondering if it is only for younger people. With all their Bible knowledge, these adults are enjoying this Bible doctrine book.