"It belongs to the truth of our Lord's humanity," wrote B.B. Warfield, "that he was subject to all sinless human emotions." In this short volume, Warfield focusses on Christ's compassion, anger, and sorrow.Warfield (1851-1921), the last of the great Princeton theologians, was professor of theology at Princeton from 1887 until his death.

This certainly may be fairly called one of the great passages of the Bible. Note the series of great topics which are adverted to in it: the inward strengthening of the children of God by the Holy Spirit, the continual abiding of Christ in their hearts, their rooting and grounding in love, their enlargement in spiritual apprehension, even to the knowledge of the unknowable, their filling with all the fullness of God. Surely here is a catalogue of great things for God's people! These great ...

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 according to his nature, or perhaps we would better say, each according to his temperament. Thus, broadly speaking, three main types of religion arise, corresponding to th...

A Close Look at the Complex Emotions of ChristIn the search to understand the deity of Christ, Christians might overlook what the Bible reveals about his humanity. Did Jesus really feel emotions? What grieved him? What delighted him? How did Jesus—fully human and fully God—react to the world and people around him? Throughout Scripture, Jesus displays a range of emotions that can help believers understand him more intimately.In The Emotional Life of Our ...

THOSE who are unfamiliar with the life of Princeton Theological Seminary and desire to learn something of the nature and the early history of the “Conferences” held in the “Oratory” of the Seminary may be referred to the Life of Archibald Alexander by his son, James W. Alexander, pp. 420 ff; the Life of Samuel Miller by his son, Samuel Miller, vol. ii, p. 400; and the Life of Charles Hodge by his son, A. A. Hodge, pp. 453 ff; with the last of which may be compare...

At five lectures delivered at Princeton Seminary during the summer of 1914, B. B. Warfield used “a progressive series of corrections” to explain “the divine dealing with man which ends in his salvation.” Starting with the divide between naturalism and supernaturalism, continuing to sacerdotalism and evangelicalism, and on through universalistic vs. particularistic views, Warfield emphasized complete dependence upon God: “It is only the Calvinist that has warrant to believe in salvation whe...

Warfield (1851-1921), the last of the great Princeton theologians, was professor of theology at Princeton from 1887 until his death.These nine gospel-saturated sermons preached in the chapel of Princeton Seminary include:The Prodigal SonJesus OnlyThe Lamb of GodGod's Immeasurable LoveThe Gospel of PaulThe Glorified ChristThe Risen JesusThe Gospel of the CovenantImitating the Incarnation

I wish to speak to you to-day of the parable of the prodigal son, or, as it is becoming very common to call it, perhaps with greater exactness, the parable of the lost son. I shall not read it to you again. It has already been read in the lesson for the day. And in any event it is too familiar to require that you should be reminded even of the minuter details of the narrative. Probably no passage of the Scriptures is more widely known or more universally admired. The conversation and liter...

En 1917, por el aniversario 400 de la Reforma, Benjamin B. Warfield escribió este destacado artículo que apareció en The Biblical Review que fue publicado por The Biblical Seminary en Nueva York. Aquí Warfield expuso, como solo él podría, el verdadero corazón de la Reforma. A diferencia de muchos de su tiempo que intentaban encontrar la genialidad y la génesis de la Reforma en algo más que la teología, Warfield escribió: "La Reforma consistió —e insistimos en ello— precisamente en...

I have recently received a letter from a valued friend asking me to send him a "discussion of the Greek words λαλέω (laleō) and λέγω (legō) in such passages as I Cor. 14: 33—39, with special reference to the question: Does the thirty-fourth verse forbid all women everywhere to speak or preach publicly in Christian churches?" The matter is of universal interest, and I take the liberty of communicating my reply to the readers of The Presbyterian. It requir...

It all, in the end, comes back to the authority of the apostles, as founders of the church. We may like what Paul says, or we may not like it. We may be willing to do what he commands, or we may not be willing to do it. But there is no room for doubt of what he says. And he certainly would say to us, what he said to the Corinthians: "What? Was it from you that the word of God went forth? or came it to you alone?" Is this Christianity ours—to do with as we like? Or is it God's religion, rec...

It was inevitable that the energy of the Church in intellectually realizing and defining its doctrines in relation to one another, should first be directed towards the objective side of Christian truth. The chief controversies of the first four centuries and the resulting definitions of doctrine, concerned the nature of God and the person of Christ; and it was not until these theological and Christological questions were well upon their way to final settlement, that the Church could turn i...