with the theological, scientific, and philosophical literature and thought of his day constituted the high-water mark of Old Princeton. He was well equipped with all the tools of modern scholarship, thoroughly abreast of all the latest theories and methods of the critics, widely—indeed, seemingly exhaustively—read in all the various theological disciplines (whether of theological friend or foe), deeply informed by the historical development of Christian doctrines—Patristic (Greek and Latin), Reformed,
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