Reformed Faith and Theology

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..

God Our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ by Benjamin B. Warfield From The Princeton Theological Review, v. xv, 1917, pp. 1-20. In the opening sentence of the very first of Paul's letters which have come down to us - and that is as much as to say, in the very first sentence which, so far as we know, he ever wrote, - he makes use of a phrase in speaking of the Christians' God, wh..

Christianity and Revelation by Benjamin B. Warfield From Selected Shorter Writings of Benjamin B. Warfield, vol. 1, Edited by John E. Meeter,published by Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1970. originaly from The Bible Student, V, 1902, pp. 123-128. Christianity is the one revealed religion. That is to say, while the tenets of other religions are the product of huma..

The Person Of Christ According To The New Testament by Benjamin B. Warfield 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 h..

The Bible: The Book of Mankind by Benjamin B. Warfield A paper read at the World’s Bible Congress held at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, California, August 1-4, 1915. ADOLPH Harnack, in repelling the proposal that the faculties of Theology in the German Universities should cease to be faculties of distinctively Christian Theology, and become faculties of Theolo..

The Theology of the Reformation by Benjamin B. Warfield Reprinted from The Biblical Review, ii. 1917, pp. 490-512 (published by The Biblical Seminary in New York;). Charles Beard begins his Hibbert Lectures on The Reformation with these words: "To look upon the Reformation of the sixteenth century as only the substitution of one set of theological doctrines for another, or the ..

Calvinism by Benjamin B. Warfield 1. MEANING AND USES OF THE TERM Calvinism is an ambiguous term in so far as it is currently employed in two or three senses, closely related indeed, and passing insensibly into one another, but of varying latitudes of connotation. Sometimes it designates merely the individual teaching of John Calvin. Sometimes it designates, more broadly, the d..

The Historical Christ by Benjamin B. Warfield The rise of Christianity was a phenomenon of too little apparent significance to attract the attention of the great world. It was only when it had refused to be quenched in the blood of its founder, and, breaking out of the narrow bounds of the obscure province in which it had its origin, was making itself felt in the centers of pop..

Imputation by Benjamin B. Warfield Reprinted from "The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge," edited by Samuel Macauley Jackson, D.D., LL.D., v. pp. 465-467 (copyright by Funk and Wagnalls Company, New York, 1909). I. ORIGIN AND MEANING OF THE TERM The theological use of the term "imputation" is probably rooted ultimately in the employment of the verb imputo in..

The Cessation of the Charismata by Benjamin B. Warfield WHEN our Lord came down to earth He drew heaven with Him. The signs which accompanied His ministry were but the trailing clouds of glory which He brought from heaven, which is His home. The number of the miracles which He wrought may easily be underrated. It has been said that in effect He banished disease and death from P..

Communion with Christ by Benjamin B. Warfield 2 Tim. 2:11-13: ㅡ "Faithful is the saying: For if we died with Him, we shall also live with him: if we endure we shall also reign with him: if we shall deny him, he also will deny us; if we are faithless, he abideth faithful; for he cannot deny himself." The words which are before us this afternoon form one of those "faithful sayi..

The Biblical Doctrine of Faith by Benjamin B. Warfield I. The Philological Expression of Faith The verb ' to believe' in the Authorized Version of the Old Testament uniformly represents the Hebrew pax?, Hiphil of IteK, except, of course, in Dan. vi. 23 where it represents the corresponding Aramaic form. The root, which is widely spread among the Semitic tongues, and which in th..

Christianity Without Christ by Charles Hodge In one sense of the word, Christianity is the system of truth taught by Christ and his apostles. In this sense the question, what is Christianity? is simply a historical one. It may be answered intelligently and correctly by a man who does not profess to be a Christian, just as he may answer the question, what is Brahmism? or, what i..