B.B. Warfield's scientifically constructive theological scholarship / David P. Smith ; edited by June Corduan ; with a foreword by Alan Strange.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, David P. (David Paul), 1962-

Contributor:

Corduan, June.

Series:

Monograph series (Evangelical Theological Society) ; no. 10.

The Evangelical Theological Society monograph series ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge, 1851-1921.

Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge.

Theology, Doctrinal.

Bible--Inspiration--History of doctrines.

Bible.

Inspiration.

Physical Description:

xxi, 319 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Or. : Pickwick Publications, [2011]

Summary:

B. B. Warfield, The "Lion of Princeton," is perhaps Americas most prolific and preeminent biblical and theological scholar, and yet he has been largely misunderstood and misrepresented. In this landmark work, David Smith penetrates to the defining features of Warfield's thought and helps us understand its revolutionary character. Warfield's detractors have maligned his thought as static and beholden to an outdated epistemology, yet Smith debunks this myth. Placed within his historical context, we discover Warfield expressing the organic and dynamic nature of truth, overcoming the subject-object dilemma that plagues Western epistemological rationalism and mysticism, and all through his explaining the doctrinal system warranted by the Bible. Theological scholarship and American church historiography will have to reckon with this fresh and much-needed apologetic on America's preeminent apologist. Book jacket.

Contents:

A historiographical review of old Princeton and Warfield

B. B. Warfield : a biographical summary

Contextual issues : biblical criticism, theology, and philosophy in the nineteenth century

Princeton and Warfield : reponses to contextual issues

Theology and epistemology : science and the context of apologetics

Systematic theology's legitimacy : what is Christianity?

Apologetics in principle : establishing the biblical gospel

Apologetics in practice : biblical doctrines, morality, subjectivity, and the supernatural.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-319).

ISBN:

161097185X

9781610971850

OCLC:

748935644

Publisher Number:

99946253463