Henrich Heppe was a German Reformed theologian and church historian. He was a graduate of Marburg, where he then became a professor in 1850.
This detailed historical account provides insight into the development of church reform in Germany during the 17th century. Utilizing primary sources, Heppe recounts the establishment of the Hessische Kirchenordnung and its implications for the religious landscape of the region.
This compendium of Reformed theology, which quotes profusely the writings of the Reformers of the sixteenth century and the scholastics of the seventeenth, is both instructive and spiritually uplifting. "I know from experience," writes G. T. Thomson in the preface, that Reformed Dogmatics "can work wonders in theological students."Heppe's aim in writing and compiling this book (which first appeared in German in 1861 and in English in 1950) was to expound the orthodox system of doctrine in the Reformed church faithfully and without addition."All the written sources I could lay hands on," wrote Heppe, "I have carefully researched and compared, in order to transmit the thought material brought to light and disseminated by the acknowledged representatives of Reformed orthodoxy... The extracts from the sources which I have imparted for the illustration of Reformed Church doctrine are (particularly in the fundamental Loci) given so copiously and so fully that the reader can himself test the reproduction of the Reformed system which I have given him."Reformed Dogmatics included a "List of the Most Important Sources Quoted" and an index of subjects and names.