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The Lion of Princeton: B.B. Warfield as Apologist and Theologian is unavailable, but you can change that!

Kim 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.

Princeton College alumni who remembered B. B. Warfield’s student days at Princeton recall that on November 6, 1870, the young Warfield and a certain James Steen “distinguished themselves by indulging in a little Sunday fight in front of the chapel after Dr. McCosh’s afternoon lecture.” Warfield, it seems, “in lieu of taking notes” during Dr. McCosh’s lecture, took great delight in sketching an “exceedingly uncomplimentary picture of Steen,” which
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