1978 paperback with 721 pages in very good condition.

Heinrich Heppe (1820-1879) was of the liberal and ecumenical theological persuasion and a prolific author, writing in the middle of the nineteenth century at the University of Marburg, Germany. It was this work that appeared in 1861 that later introduced Karl Barth to the Reformed Confessions and the Reformed tradition he was obliged to teach at the University of Göttingen in the 1920s. Heppe's work is dated, but serves as an invaluable resource given his frequent citation of Reformed theologians of the Reformation period such as Calvin, Beza, Peter Martyr Vermigli, and Girolamo Zanchi as well as leading theologians of the age of Reformed Orthodoxy (1560-1700) such as Cocceius, Voetius, Wollebius, Turretin, Mastricht, and Witsius in order to verify his assertions regarding each particular theological topic with attendant citations from these theologians.

Heppe breaks up the subject of Dogmatics into theological topics known as "Loci" beginning with natural and revealed revelation before progressing to the doctrine of Scripture and then the doctrine of God and then the particulars of the trinity, the decrees of God, predestination, creation, providence, sin, grace, the mediating office of Christ, Christ's humiliation and exaltation, vocation, justification, sanctification, the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Supper, the doctrine of the Church and finally "glorification."