Reformed Faith and Theology

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..

Introduction to the Christian Faith Who is God? What does it mean to be estranged from God? Why did the Messiah experience humiliation and death? How are sins forgiven? What is faith? Will there be a judgment day at the end of history? God God the Creator, by J. Gresham Machen The Triune God, by J. Gresham Machen The Bible The Authority and Inspiration of the Bible, by Benjamin..

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..

Calvin as a Controversialist by Cornelius Van Til Calvin’s activity as a controversialist began with his “sudden conversion” to the Protestant faith. To become a Protestant was, for Calvin as well as for Luther, to become an Augustinian who tested Augustine’s teaching by Scripture. All controversies about the nature of man, his sin and his salvation, must be settled by ..

The Reformed Doctrine Of Scripture by Cornelius Van Til Recently, a large number of “statements” and discussions on the doctrine of Scripture written both from the “conservative” and from the “liberal” view have appeared. It is not the purpose of this pamphlet to deal with these. Its purpose is rather to deal with some quite striking differences between representati..

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 ..