Showing results by author "Benjamin B. Warfield" in All Categories

Benjamin B. Warfield (1851-1921) was Professor of Didactic and Polemic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. He discusses the human authorship of the scriptures and points out the divine authorship behind the human. It ascribes to the authors of the books the influence of the Holy Spirit in their process of writing that the words they set down become the words of God.

Princeton theologian B. B. Warfield was a watchman on the wall of orthodoxy. His temperament, training, and talent—together with his deep love for Christ and amazing breadth of knowledge—shaped him into the twentieth century's greatest defender of the faith. His writings have been studied with profit for well over a hundred years—a tribute to his clear, careful, cogent, gospel-centered exposition of orthodox Christianity, which he called "the redemptive religion" and which he fearlessly defended.

A minister must be both learned and religious. It is not a matter of choosing between the two. He must study, but he must study as in the presence of God and not in a secular spirit. He must recognize the privilege of pursuing his studies in the environment where God and salvation from sin are the air he breathes. He must also take advantage of every opportunity for corporate worship, particularly while he trains in the Theological Seminary.