B. B. Warfield : Essays on His Life and Thought

by Johnson, Gary L. W.

• ISBN13: 9781596380370
• ISBN10: 1596380373
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-30
• Publisher: Presbyterian & Reformed Pub Co

Summary

"It is time that modern Christians come to know the real Warfield," writes David Calhoun in the foreword to this volume. These essays provide an enlightening look at B. B. Warfield the man, his background, his apologetics and polemics, and his timeless contributions to our understanding of Scripture and its doctrines.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
"B" Is for Breckinridge: Benjamin B. Warfield, His Maternal Kin, and Princeton Seminary	p. 13
A "Rather Bald" Rationalist? The Appeal to "Right Reason"	p. 54
Old Princeton, Westminster, and Inerrancy	p. 76
Warfield and the Doctrine of Scripture	p. 92
Warfield on the Life of the Mind and the Apologetic Nature of Christian Scholarship	p. 108
"Wicked Caste": Warfield, Biblical Authority, and Jim Crow	p. 136
"The Vital Processes of Controversy": Warfield, Machen, and Fundamentalism	p. 169
Warfield and C. A. Briggs: Their Polemics and Legacy	p. 195
Warfield and the Briggs Trial: A Bibliography	p. 241
Index	p. 257
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