Reformed Faith and Theology

What Is “Orthodoxy”? by the Rev. J. Gresham Machen, D.D., Litt.D. The following editorial by Dr. J. Gresham Machen appeared in the November 4, 1935 issue of The Presbyterian Guardian (vol. 1, no. 3). Machen’s editorials appeared under the title of “The Changing Scene and the Unchanging Word,” with Isaiah 40:8 as a referenced Scripture text. The Presbyterian Constituti..

Justification SUBTOPICS Active/Passive Obedience of Christ (53) Audio and Multimedia (84) Classic Essays on Justification (68) Contemporary Essays & Articles (125) James Vs. Paul (26) Justification & Sanctification (32) New Perspective on Paul (27) Roman Catholic Teaching on Justification (44) Sermons (36) The Imputation of Christ’s Righteousness (79)Related Topic: Sola Fide ..

基督教学识的重要性 梅钦(J. Gresham Machen) 基督教的圣经就是神所启示的真理。如果我们主张圣经的见解，我们作教师与牧师的，就当以传布此真理的知识为最高任务。如果知识传道是必..

Reformed Creeds and Supplementary Resources (eBooks) The creeds and confessions expand and develop over the entire existence of the church. A creed is a concise declaration or confession of beliefs that outlines the essential truths of the Christian faith. They progress from simple statements in the bible, to brief statements like the Nicene Creed, to complex confessions like t..

加尔文主义系列讲座 (Lectures on Calvinism) 亚伯拉罕·凯帕尔(Abraham Kuyper,1898) 王兆丰 译 简 介 亚伯拉罕.卡艾帕博士是著名的荷兰加尔文主义神学家，哲学家，政治家。他于1901-1905当选为荷兰首相，任荷兰议会议员三十多年。卡艾帕博士才华横溢，精力充沛。他以加尔文主义为基础，对他的..

At some point, those interested in the Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck (1854-1921) would also like to read what others have written about him. The following are some helpful starting points for finding literature about Herman Bavinck: - Eric D. Bristley, Guide to the Writings of Herman Bavinck, with an essay by John Bolt (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2008), 35..

Those interested in the works of the Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck (1854-1921) will usually consult the following bibliographies: - Eric D. Bristley, Guide to the Writings of Herman Bavinck, with an essay by John Bolt (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2008). See also my comments and additions to this helpful guide. - The Bavinck Bibliography at the website of Th..

The Holy Spirit's Work of Calling and Regeneration by Herman Bavinck The following essay is from the fourth and final full volume of Herman Bavinck’s Reformed Dogmatics in English translation prepared by the Dutch Reformed Translation Society, represents the culmination of a twelve-year project. Prior to the first full volume on prolegomena, published by Baker Academic in 200..

[373p] 삼위일체론을 잘 이해하기 위해, 다음 세 가지 질문이 반드시 대답되어야 한다. '본질'이라는 단어는 무엇을 의미하는가? '위격'이라는 단어는 무엇을 지칭하는가? 그리고 '본질'과 '위격' 그리고 위격들 사이의 상호 관계는 무엇인가? '본질'이라는 개념에 관하여 아리스토텔레스는 '..

A Brief and Untechnical Statement of the Reformed Faith by Benjamin B. Warfield 1. I believe that God, since the creation of His world, has plainly revealed through the things He has made His eternal power and divine nature, and the requirements of His law, so that there is no excuse for unbelief or disobedience on the part of any man; yet however glorious this revelation, it i..

삼위일체론은 교회의 교리였으며, 따라서 아주 탁월한 신비였다. 기독교의 본질, 즉 그리스도 안에서의 하나님의 절대적 자기 계시와 성령 안에서의 하나님의 절대적 자기 전달은, 오로지 그 토대와 원리가 존재론적 삼위일체론에 근거할 때만 주장될 수 있었다. 이를 위해 제공된 성경..

The Works of Benjamin B. Warfield Some Difficult Passages in the First Chapter of 2 Corinthians PDF by B B Warfield Annihilationism PDF by B B Warfield The Theology of John Calvin PDF by B B Warfield What Fatalism Is PDF by B B Warfield Calvin's Doctrine of the Knowledge of God PDF by B B Warfield The Christ that Paul Preached PDF by B B Warfield Christ our Sacrifice PDF by B B..

The Divine Messiah In The Old Testament by Benjamin B. Warfield The question whether the Old Testament has any testimony to give as to the Deity of our Lord, when strictly taken, resolves itself into the question whether the Old Testament holds out the promise of a Divine Messiah. To gather the intimation of a multiplicity in the Divine unity which may be thought to be discover..

The Twentieth-Century Christ by Benjamin B. Warfield WHAT may very properly be called the Chalcedonian "settlement" has remained until today the authoritative statement of the elements of the doctrine of the Person of Christ. It has well deserved to do so. For this "settlement" does justice at once to the data of Scripture, to the implicates of an Incarnation, to the needs of R..

Calvin and the Reformation by Benjamin B. Warfield John Calvin did not belong to the first generation of Reformers. When Luther nailed his Ninety-five Theses to the door of the Castle Church at Wittenberg, he was a child of eight years old. When he entered upon his work as Reformer, the first great battle of the Reformation had been fought out. Zwingli was already some five yea..

The Task and Method of Systematic Theology by Benjamin B. Warfield By "Systematic Theology" is meant that department or section of theological science which is concerned with setting forth systematically, that is to say, as a concatenated whole, what is known concerning God. Other departments or sections of theological science undertake other tasks. Whether such a being as God ..

The Resurrection of Christ: A Historical Fact by Benjamin B. Warfield The following essay was originally published in The Journal of Christian Philosophy, vol. III., 1884, pp. 305-318. It is a somewhat difficult matter to distinguish between Christian doctrines and facts. The doctrines of Christianity are doctrines only because they are facts; and the facts of Christianity beco..

On Faith in Its Psychological Aspects by Benjamin B. Warfield The English word "faith" came into the language under the influence of the French, and is but a modification of the Latin "fides," which is itself cognate with the Greek pi,stij. Its root-meaning seems to be that of "binding." Whatever we discover to be "binding" on us, is the object of "faith."2 The corresponding Ge..

Inspiration by Benjamin B. Warfield The word “inspire” and its derivatives seem to have come into Middle English from the French, and have been employed from the first (early in the 14th century) in a considerable number of significations, physical and metaphorical, secular and religious. The derivatives have been multiplied and their applications extended during the proces..

Revelation by Benjamin B. Warfield THE NATURE OF REVELATION. 1. The Religion of the Bible the Only Supernatural Religion: The religion of the Bible is a frankly supernatural religion. By this is not meant merely that, according to it, all men, as creatures, live, move and have their being in God. It is meant that, according to it, God has intervened extraordinarily, in the cour..

Person of Christ by Benjamin B. Warfield METHOD OF THE ARTICLE: It is the purpose of this article to make as clear as possible the conception of the Person of Christ, in the technical sense of that term, which lies on ㅡ or, if we prefer to say so, beneath ㅡ the pages of the New Testament. Were it its purpose to trace out the process by which this great mystery has been reve..

The Deity of Christ by Benjamin B. Warfield A recent writer1 has remarked that our assured conviction of the deity of Christ rests, not upon “proof-texts or passages, nor upon old arguments drawn from these, but upon the general fact of the whole manifestation of Jesus Christ, and of the whole impression left by Him upon the world.” The antithesis is too absolute, and possi..

Trinity by Benjamin B. Warfield THE TERM “TRINITY”: The term “Trinity” is not a Biblical term, and we are not using Biblical language when we define what is expressed by it as the doctrine that there is one only and true God, but in the unity of the Godhead there are three coeternal and coequal Persons, the same in substance but distinct in subsistence. A doctrine so de..

Inspiration and Criticism by Benjamin B. Warfield Fathers and Brothers: It is without doubt a very wise provision by which, in institutions such as this, an inaugural address is made a part of the ceremony of induction into the professorship. Only by the adoption of some such method could it be possible for you, as the guardians of this institution, responsible for the principl..

Tractate on Inspiration by A. A. Hodge and B. B. Warfield BY PROFESSOR ARCHIBALD A. HODGE, D.D., LL.D., AND PROFESSOR BENJAMIN B. WARFIELD, D.D. THE word “Inspiration,” as applied to the Holy Scriptures, has gradually acquired a specific technical meaning independent of its etymology. At first this word, in the sense of “God-breathed,” was used to express the entire age..

Jonathan Edwards and the New England Theology by Benjamin B. Warfield Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, 1912 JONATHAN EDWARDS, saint and metaphysician, revivalist and theologian, stands out as the one figure of real greatness in the intellectual life of colonial America. Born, bred, passing his whole life on the verge of civilization, he has made his voice heard wherever men..

Mysticism and Christianity by Benjamin B. Warfield Religion is, shortly, the reaction of the human soul in the presence of God. As God is as much a part of the environment of man as the earth on which he stands, no man can escape from religion any more than he can escape from gravitation. But though every man necessarily reacts to God, men react of course diversely, each accord..

What Is Sin? by J. Gresham Machen Machen (1881-1937) was Professor of New Testament, first at Princeton Theological Seminary, and afterwards at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia. Excerpts from The Christian View of Man (1937). We come now to ask what sin at bottom is. Widely different answers have been given to this question, and with these different answers have ..

Christian Scholarship and the Defense of the Faith The Importance of Christian Scholarship in The Defense of The Faith by J. Gresham Machen This Address was originally delivered in London on June 17, 1932. There are, indeed, those who tell us that no defense of the faith is necessary. "The Bible needs no defense," they say; "let us not be forever defending Christianity, but ins..

What Is Calvinism? by Benjamin B. Warfield It is very odd how difficult it seems for some persons to understand just what Calvinism is. And yet the matter itself presents no difficulty whatever. It is capable of being put into a single sentence; and that, on level to every religious man's comprehension. For Calvinism is just religion in its purity. We have only, therefore, to c..