«Warfield, nel suo stile chiaro e conciso, con la sagacia biblica e la padronanza della teologia storica che lo distinsero, descrisse e difese il soprannaturalismo contro il naturalismo, l’evangelicalismo contro il sacerdotalismo, il particolarismo contro l’universalismo e il calvinismo biblico contro quelle che egli definì come “forme impoverite” di esso. Warfield mostrò che, fondamentalmente, esistono soltanto due dottrine della salvezza: la salvezza che proviene da Dio e la salvezza che...

«La religione della Bibbia è apertamente soprannaturale. Questo non significa solo che secondo il suo messaggio tutti gli uomini, quali creature, vivono, si muovono e sono in Dio (Atti 17:28). Il senso di tale affermazione è che, secondo la Bibbia, nel corso dello sviluppo peccaminoso del mondo, Dio è intervenuto in modo straordinario per salvare uomini che, altrimenti, sarebbero andati in perdizione. Nell’Eden, Dio il Signore era presente con l’uomo, il quale era senza peccato, in una tal...

Benjamin B. Warfield (1851-1921) gehörte zu den einflussreichsten konservativen Theologen seiner Zeit. Von 1886-1921 war er Rektor des Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, USA. In seinem Buch Counterfeit Miracles (Falsche Wunder) aus dem Jahre 1918 legt er in brillanter Weise und mit großer Sachkenntnis die Argumente für den Cessationismus dar – der Lehre über das Aufhören der Inspirations- sowie Wundergaben. Die vorliegende Übersetzung des ersten Kapitels mit dem Titel The Cessati...

The Saviour of the World contains nine of Warfield’s sermons preached in the chapel of Princeton Theological Seminary. Each sermon is based on a significant text of the New Testament, including the Parable of the Prodigal Son, the metaphor of Jesus as the Lamb of God, God’s love, God’s glory, the resurrection, and the incarnation.These sermons are scholarly yet accessible. Immediate yet lofty. In a word it is Biblical.Christ is honoured and expounded on every page, and we lef...

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. Christ Himself leads in setting the example of t...

Dr. Warfield identifies the crucial questions associated with God's plan of salvation. He gives a shattering critique of the most dangerous answers that men have devised to those questions. He also exposes the injury to men's souls and the affront to God's glory which must necessarily result from those errors. Herein lies the enduring value of this work.

The Christ Myth by Arthur Drews was published early in 1909,1 and before the year was out its author was being requisitioned by dissidents from Christianity of the most incongruous types as a promising instrument for the general anti-christian propaganda. Few more remarkable spectacles have ever been witnessed than the exploitation throughout Germany in the opening months of 1910 of this hyper-idealistic metaphysician, disciple of von Hartmann and convinced adherent of the “Philosophy of t...

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...

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 de...

Oh, toil-worn pilgrim, weary with your burden, would you know the glory in store for you? Look at Jesus: you shall be like Him. Are you tempted to despair? Do you shrink from an endless future in which you shall remain for ever yourself? Look at Jesus: not as you are, but like what He is, you are to be. If we can but attain to such a hope, heaven bursts at once upon our souls. To be like Jesus! Is this not a glory, in the presence of which all other glories fade away by reason of the glory...

In a recent number of The Harvard Theological Review, Professor Douglas Clyde Macintosh of the Yale Divinity School outlines in a very interesting manner the religious system to which he gives his adherence. For “substance of doctrine” (to use a form of speech formerly quite familiar at New Haven) this religious system does not differ markedly from what is usually taught in the circles of the so-called “Liberal Theology.” Professor Macintosh has, however, his own way of construing and phra...

"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 focuses 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.