Monergism.com, who often has amazing deals on solid books, is offering Richard Muller’s magisterial Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics at $79, 61% off the $200 list price. This is a very important set as it seeks to demonstrate the development of theology in the latter part of the sixteenth and on into the seventeenth centuries. For the study of Edwards, this set would be invaluable in its presentation of the theological situation that Edwards would be born into in 1703. Little work has been done to show the influence of Post-Reformation Continental Reformed Theology on Edwards’s thought, and Muller’s set would be a very useful secondary source in such ventures. Here’s a brief look at what each volume contains:

Volume One: Prolegomena to Theology, introduces the study of Protestant scholasticism. Muller defines theology and religion and discusses several aspects of theology as they were understood in the post-Reformation era, including its divisions, object and genus, and fundamental principles.

Volume Two: Holy Scripture, examines post-Reformation understandings of Scripture as the word of God, its divinity, its properties, the integrity of the canon, and its interpretation.

Volume Three: The Divine Essence and Attributes, examines post-Reformation theology on the unity of God’s existence, God’s divine essence and attributes, and divine will. Included is an analysis of the doctrine of God from the twelfth to the early eighteenth century.

Volume Four: The Triunity of God, examines the doctrine of the Trinity, including unity and distinction in the Trinity as they were understood in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and addresses the deity and person of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

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