B. B. Warfield as Apologist and Theologian
Kim Riddlebarger
STUDIES IN HISTORICAL AND SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY
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The Lion of Princeton: B. B. Warfield as Apologist and Theologian
Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology
Copyright 2015 Kim Riddlebarger
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1. The Heir to the Princeton Tradition
A Very Productive Life (1851–1921)
Scottish Common Sense Realism and Princeton Theological Seminary
Thomas Reid and Scottish Common Sense Realism
Reid’s Scottish Successors—Stewart, Beattie, Brown, and Hamilton
James McCosh, John Witherspoon, and Princeton College
James McCosh and Intuitional Realism
The New Science of Textual Criticism
Evaluating Warfield’s Critical Methodology
Warfield’s Continuing Influence
The Nature and Scope of Apologetics
The “Classical” Proofs for God’s Existence
The Resurrection as the Essential “Fact” of Christianity
Assessment of Warfield’s Apologetics
Two Major Essays on Systematic Theology
“The Idea of Systematic Theology”
“The Right of Systematic Theology”—The Problem with “Indifferent Latitudinarians”
The Task of the Theologian: Adding Ties and Rail to the Track
Qualms about the Emerging Fundamentalism
A Calvinistically Warped Mind—Warfield on John Miley’s Arminianism
Naysaying the “Coterie of Bible Teachers”
Evelyn Underhill’s Muddled Mysticism
Cornelius Van Til’s Assessment
Critiques by Mark Noll and George Marsden
Scottish Common Sense Philosophy and the Reformed Tradition
Natural Theology and Christian Evidences
Faith, Reason, and the Holy Spirit
Closer to the Center of Reformed Tradition?
One writer states, “It is a deep privilege to salute mentors and friends who made the academic pilgrimage so meaningful.” My own pilgrimage began inauspiciously one night many years ago in a burger joint, when I engaged in my first-ever theological discussion with a real live theologian. The challenge given that night—that someone undertake a look at the relationship between the Princeton apologetic and Scottish Common Sense ...
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About The Lion of Princeton: B.B. Warfield as Apologist and TheologianKim Riddlebarger provides a biographical overview of B. B. Warfield’s life and traces the growing appreciation for Warfield’s thought by contemporary Reformed thinkers. Furthermore, he evaluates the fundamental structures in Warfield’s overall theology and examines Warfield’s work in the field of systematic theology. |
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