Anglican Dogmatics: Francis J. Hall's Dogmatic Theology

by Francis J. Hall, John A. Porter

The original advertisement for the publication of Francis J. Hall’s Dogmatic Theology in ten volumes by Longmans, Green and Company characterized it as “the long-desired Anglican Summa of doctrine, designed to constitute a connected treatment of the entire range of Catholic Doctrine,” making an implicit comparison to the magisterial Summa Theologicae (Summary of Theology) of St. Thomas Aquinas. The two are of roughly similar length, but it is in terms of comprehensiveness that the latter most resembles the former. Hall does for Anglicans what Aquinas did for Roman Catholics: systematize the contents of the Faith as taught by the Church and confirmed by the Scriptures...Its present obscurity is no doubt due to its being out of print for long periods, as well as to the unwieldiness of its 3,198 (!) pages. This slightly abridged and fully annotated edition is intended to remove both of these obstacles to its accessibility.

Francis J. Hall (1857-1932) was a priest and theologian of the American Episcopal Church, in the Anglo-Catholic (Tractarian) tradition. He served as Professor of Dogmatic Theology at The Western Theological Seminary in Chicago from 1905 to 1912 and at The General Seminary in New York City from 1913 to 1928.

Genres: Theology, Religion

684 pages, Paperback

Published November 9, 2021

Reviews

[Daylon Tilitzky · Rating 4 out of 5]

I don't think I can summarize everything this text is in a review. Excellent, thought-provoking, and somehow both modern and not at the same time. Of course there were parts that I disagreed with, but that is to be expected. In general, an excellent systematic theology, and I'm surprised that more Anglicans have yet to read this.