Daily Doctrine
A One-Year Guide to Systematic Theology
Learn Important Systematic Theology Topics Each Day with This Accessible One-Year Devotional
All thoughtful Christians want to better understand the Bible, its author, and its influence on their beliefs. In short―whether they recognize it or not―they want to understand theology. But many find the subject matter too academic, dense, or difficult to understand, and they lack proper study resources to help expand their knowledge of God and his written word.
Designed to make systematic theology clear and accessible for the everyday Christian, this devotional walks through the most important theology topics over the course of a year. Each month is categorized into broad themes, starting with the study of God and concluding with the end times. Written by bestselling author and associate professor of systematic theology Kevin DeYoung, each concise daily reading contains verses for meditation and application, building upon each other and easing readers into the study of systematic theology.
- Opening Credits
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Prolegomena: Preliminary Considerations and Doctrine of Scripture
- Day 1: Theology
- Day 2: Systematic Theology
- Day 3: Divisions of Theology
- Day 4: Religion
- Day 5: Science
- Day 6: Speculative or Practical
- Day 7: Ad Fontes
- Day 8: Principia
- Day 9: Faith and Reason
- Day 10: Inner Testimony of the Holy Spirit
- Day 11: Fundamental Articles
- Day 12: Knowing God
- Day 13: Natural Law and Natural Theology
- Day 14: General Revelation and Special Revelation
- Day 15: Inspiration
- Day 16: Concursive Operation
- Day 17: Perfections of Scripture
- Day 18: Inerrancy
- Day 19: The Question of Canon
- Day 20: Which Books Belong in the Bible
- Theology Proper: The Being of God and the Works of God
- Day 21: The Existence of God
- Day 22: The Knowability of God
- Day 23: Words for God
- Day 24: The Unity of God
- Day 25: The Spirituality of God
- Day 26: The Names of God
- Day 27: The Attributes of God
- Day 28: Incommunicable and Communicable Attributes
- Day 29: Substance and Accidents
- Day 30: Christian Theology and Greco-Roman Philosophy
- Day 31: The Simplicity of God
- Day 32: Aseity
- Day 33: Divine Infinity
- Day 34: Immutability
- Day 35: Impassibility
- Day 36: Theopaschitism and Patripassianism
- Day 37: Attributes of Intellect
- Day 38: Attributes of Will
- Day 39: Attributes of Power
- Day 40: Transcendence and Immanence
- Day 41: God as Trinity
- Day 42: The Bible and the Trinity
- Day 43: Trinitarian Terms
- Day 44: One and Three
- Day 45: Eternal Generation
- Day 46: The Filioque Clause
- Day 47: Perichoresis
- Day 48: Taxis
- Day 49: Inseparable Operations
- Day 50: Our Triune God and the Christian Life
- Day 51: The Divine Decrees
- Day 52: The Will of God
- Day 53: Freedom of the Will
- Day 54: God's Permission
- Day 55: Election and Reprobation
- Day 56: Is Predestination Fair?
- Day 57: The Order of the Decrees
- Day 58: Amyraldianism
- Day 59: Middle Knowledge
- Day 60: Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God
- Day 61: Our Creator God
- Day 62: Creation Ex Nihilo
- Day 63: Creation Days
- Day 64: Historical Adam
- Day 65: The End for Which God Created the World
- Day 66: Angels
- Day 67: Demons
- Day 68: Providence
- Day 69: Miracles
- Day 70: Prayer
- Anthropology: Man as Created and Fallen
- Day 71: Created Being and Crowning Achievement
- Day 72: Man as Body and Soul
- Day 73: Where Do Our Souls Come From
- Day 74: Faculty Psychology
- Day 75: Male and Female
- Day 76: Marriage
- Day 77: Transgenderism
- Day 78: Image of God
- Day 79: What Does It Mean to Be Made in the Image of God?
- Day 80: What Are the Implications of Being Made in the Image of God?
- Day 81: The Essence of Sin
- Day 82: The Origin of Sin
- Day 83: The Transmission of Sin
- Day 84: Total Inability
- Day 85: Human Nature in Its Fourfold State
- Day 86: Is Every Sin the Same in God's Eyes?
- Day 87: Sins Made More Heinous
- Day 88: Concupiscence
- Day 89: Temptation
- Day 90: What Difference Does the Doctrine of Sin Make?
- Covenant Theology: How God Relates to His Creatures
- Day 91: Centrality of Covenant
- Day 92: Definition of Covenant
- Day 93: Berith and Diatheke
- Day 94: Worship as Covenant Renewal
- Day 95: Covenant of Redemption
- Day 96: Covenant of Works
- Day 97: Covenance of Grace
- Day 98: The Noahic Covenant
- Day 99: Abrahamic Covenant
- Day 100: Mosaic Covenant
- Day 101: Republican
- Day 102: Davidic Covenant
- Day 103: New Covenant
- Day 104: The Fathers Have Eaten Sour Grapes
- Day 105: The Newness of the New Covenant
- Day 106: The Law and the Christian
- Day 107: Threefold Division of the Law
- Day 108: Dispensationalism
- Day 109: Baptist Covenant Theology
- Day 110: The Israel of God
- Christology I: The Person of Christ
- Day 111: Logos
- Day 112: Virgin Birth
- Day 113: Messianic Prophecies
- Day 114: Names and Titles of Jesus
- Day 115: Jesus's Witness to Himself
- Day 116: Autotheos
- Day 117: Deity of Christ
- Day 118: Humanity of Christ
- Day 119: Eternal Sonship
- Day 120: Incarnation
- Day 121: Hypostatic Union
- Day 122: Communication Idiomatum
- Day 123: How Do the Two Natures Relate to Each Other?
- Day 124: The Extra Calvanisticum
- Day 125: Christological Heresies
- Day 126: Arianism
- Day 127: Docetism
- Day 128: Nestorianism
- Day 129: Eutychianism
- Day 130: Chalcedonian Definition
- Day 131: "Whatever Is Not Assumed Cannot Be Healed"
- Day 132: Christ's Divine Self-Consciousness
- Day 133: Kenosis
- Day 134: Spirit Christology
- Day 135: Impeccability
- Christology II: The Work of Christ
- Day 136: Two States
- Day 137: Incarnation and Suffering
- Day 138: Cry of Dereliction
- Day 139: Death and Burial
- Day 140: Descent into Hell
- Day 141: Resurrection
- Day 142: Ascension
- Day 143: Session
- Day 144: Returm
- Day 145: Prophet
- Day 146: Priest
- Day 147: King
- Day 148: Christ's Kingdom
- Day 149: Introducing the Atonement
- Day 150: The Necessity of the Atonement
- Day 151: The Perfection of the Atonement
- Day 152: Theories of the Atonement 1
- Day 153: Theories of the Atonement 2
- Day 154: Obedience and Conquest
- Day 155: Reconciliation and Redemption
- Day 156: Sacrifice and Satisfaction
- Day 157: Expiation and Propitiation
- Day 158: Limited Atonement
- Day 159: Dort and Definite Atonement
- Day 160: Crushed for Our Iniquities
- Soteriology: Salvation in Christ
- Day 161: Ordo Salutis
- Day 162: The Work of the Holy Spirit 1
- Day 163: The Work of the Holy Spirit 2
- Day 164: Union wth Christ
- Day 165: General Calling
- Day 166: Effectual Calling
- Day 167: Irresistible Grace
- Day 168: Regeneration
- Day 169: Monergism
- Day 170: Conversion
- Day 171: Repentance
- Day 172: Faith
- Day 173: Acts of Faith
- Day 174: Faith and Assurance
- Day 175: Justification
- Day 176: Imputation
- Day 177: Sola Fide
- Day 178: Does James Contradict Paul?
- Day 179: Should We Take a "New Perspective" on Paul?
- Day 180: Time and Adjuncts
- Day 181: Adoption
- Day 182: How Does Sanctification Differ from Justification?
- Day 183: Three Uses of the Law
- Day 184: Trusting and Trying
- Day 185: Good Works and Salvation
- Day 186: Good Works and the Believer
- Day 187: Good Works and Merit
- Day 188: Perseverance
- Day 189: Warning Passages
- Day 190: Glorification
- Ecclesiology: The Nature, Mission, and Ordering of the Church
- Day 191: Church
- Day 192: Nature of the Church
- Day 193: Unity
- Day 194: Holiness
- Day 195: Catholicity
- Day 196: Apostolicity
- Day 197: Marks of the Church
- Day 198: Preaching
- Day 199: Members of the Church
- Day 200: Church and State
- Day 201: Nature and Extent of Church Power
- Day 202: Establishment Principle and Voluntary Principle
- Day 203: Liberty of Conscience
- Day 204: Regulative Principle
- Day 205: Mission of the Church
- Day 206: Essential Reign and Mediatorial Reign
- Day 207: Spirituality of the Church
- Day 208: Creeds and Confessions
- Day 209: Gifts of the Spirit
- Day 210: Miraculous Gifts
- Day 211: Baptism in the Spirit
- Day 212: Filled with the Spirit
- Day 213: Calling
- Day 214: Means of Grace
- Day 215: Semper Reformanda
- Day 216: Sacraments
- Day 217: How Many Sacraments?
- Day 218: Baptism
- Day 219: Recipients of Baptism
- Day 220: Mode of Baptism
- Day 221: What does Baptism Seal?
- Day 222: Who Can Baptize?
- Day 223: How Many Times Should I Be Baptized?
- Day 224: The Lord's Supper
- Day 225: Real Presence
- Day 226: A Table or an Altar?
- Day 227: Who Should I Reccieve the Lord's Supper
- Day 228: Church Membership
- Day 229: Church Discipline
- Day 230: Church Officers in the New Testmament Church
- Day 231: The Work of Ministry
- Day 232: How Many Offices in Church?
- Day 233: Elders
- Day 234: Deacons
- Day 235: Divine Appointent for Church Government
- Day 236: Who Governs the Church: The Pope?
- Day 237: Who Governs the Church: The Bishops?
- Day 238: Who Governs the Church: The Congregation?
- Day 239: Who Governs the Church: The Elders?
- Day 240: Decently and in Order
- Eschatology: Last Things
- Day 241: Death and Hell
- Day 242: Hell as Divine Punishment
- Day 243: Universalism
- Day 244: Annihilation
- Day 245: Inclusivism
- Day 246: Do Believers Go to Heaven When They Die?
- Day 247: Intermediate State
- Day 248: Judgement according to Works
- Day 249: Heavenly Rewards
- Day 250: What Will Heaven Be Like?
- Day 251: Partial Preterism
- Day 252: The Great Tribulation
- Day 253: 144,000
- Day 254: 666
- Day 255: All Israel Will Be Saved
- Day 256: Millenial Views
- Day 257: When Does the Millenium Take Place?
- Day 258: What Is Meant by the First Resurrection?
- Day 259: What Is Meant by the First Resurrection?
- Day 260: The Glorious Appearing
- Closing Credits
Kevin DeYoung
A native of Jenison, Michigan, Dr. Kevin DeYoung holds an impressive academic background. He obtained his B.A. in religion from Hope College in Holland, Michigan. Following that, he pursued his Master of Divinity degree at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. Kevin's thirst for knowledge led him to the University of Leicester in the UK, where he attained his doctorate in Early Modern History.
Before Dr. DeYoung embarked on his journey with Christ Covenant Church, where he presently serves, he was a pastor at University Reformed Church in East Lansing, Michigan. A devout member of the Council for The Gospel Coalition, Kevin frequently shares his insights at various churches, conferences, colleges, and seminaries both in North America and abroad. His expertise has led him to publish over a dozen books catering to both adults and children. Notably, his book ""Crazy Busy: A Mercifully Short Book About a Big Problem"" was awarded the 2014 Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Book of the Year. Furthermore, three of his books received the prestigious Book of the Year honors from Christianity Today in 2009, 2010, and 2013.
In addition to his role as the senior pastor at Christ Covenant Church, Kevin also serves as an associate professor of systematic theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte. His profound knowledge and passion for educating others earned him the esteemed position of Chancellor's Professor for the Seminary.
Outside of his academic and pastoral responsibilities, Kevin finds joy in his personal life. He and his wife Trisha are the loving parents of nine children.