Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (November 5, 1851 – February 16, 1921) was an American professor of
Reformed theology
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at
Princeton Seminary from 1887 to 1921. He served as the last principal of the
Princeton Theological Seminary
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from 1886 to 1902. After the death of Warfield in office,
Francis Landey Patton took over the functions of the office as the first president of seminary. Some conservative
Presbyterians
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consider him to be the last of the great
Princeton theologians before the split in 1929 that formed
Westminster Theological Seminary
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and the
Orthodox Presbyterian Church
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.
Biography
Warfield was born near
Lexington, Kentucky
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on November 5, 1851. His parents were William Warfield and Mary Cabell Breckinridge, originally from Virginia and quite wealthy. His maternal grandfather was the Presbyterian preacher
Robert Jefferson Breckinridge (1800–1871), the son of
John Breckinridge, a former
United States
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Senator
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and
Attorney General
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. Warfield's uncle was
John C. Breckinridge, the fourteenth
Vice President of the United States
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, and a
Confederate
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general
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in the
American Civil War
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. His brother,
Ethelbert Dudley Warfield
Ethelbert Dudley Warfield, D.D., LL.D. (March 16, 1861 – July 6, 1936) was an American professor of history and college president who served as president of Miami University, Lafayette College and Wilson College. As Miami University's younges ...
was a Presbyterian minister and college president. His fourth cousin twice removed was
Wallis Warfield Simpson, whom Great Britain's King
Edward VIII
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abdicated his throne in order to marry.
Education
Like many children born into a wealthy family, Warfield's childhood education was private. Warfield entered
Princeton University
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in 1868 and graduated in 1871 with high honors. Although Warfield studied
mathematics
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and
science
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in college, while traveling in Europe he decided to study theology, surprising even many of his closest friends. He entered
Princeton Seminary in 1873, in order to train for ministry as a
Presbyterian
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minister. He graduated in 1876.
Ministry
For a short time in 1876 he preached in Presbyterian churches in
Concord, Kentucky and
Dayton, Ohio
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as a "supply pastor" — the latter church calling him to be their ordained minister (which he politely refused). In late 1876 Warfield and his new wife moved to
Germany
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where he studied under
Christoph Ernst Luthardt and
Franz Delitzsch
Franz Delitzsch (23 February 1813, in Leipzig – 4 March 1890, in Leipzig) was a German Lutheran theologian and Hebraist. Delitzsch wrote many commentaries on books of the Bible, Jewish antiquities, Biblical psychology, as well as a history of J ...
. Warfield was the assistant pastor of First Presbyterian Church in
Baltimore, Maryland
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for a short time. Then he became an instructor at Western Theological Seminary, which is now called
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
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History
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary was for ...
. He was ordained on April 26, 1879.
In 1881 Warfield wrote a joint article with
A. A. Hodge on the
inspiration of the
Bible
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. It drew attention because of its scholarly and forceful defense of the
inerrancy of the Bible. In many of his writings, Warfield attempted to demonstrate that the doctrine of
Biblical inerrancy
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The belief in biblical inerrancy is of particular significance within parts of evangelicalism
Evangelicalism (), also called evangelic ...
was simply
orthodox Christian
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teaching
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, and not merely a concept invented in the nineteenth century. His passion was to refute the
liberal element within Presbyterianism and within Christianity at large. Throughout his life, he continued to write books and articles, which are still widely read today.
Marriage
In August 1876 Warfield married Annie Pierce Kinkead. Soon afterward they visited
Germany
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as Warfield was studying at Leipzig. During their time there, the two were overcome by a fierce thunderstorm. The experience of the storm was so shattering that Kinkead never fully recovered and remained a functional invalid for the rest of her life. Warfield continued to care for her until her death in 1915, managing to fit his work as a theologian with his role as caregiver. They had no children.
Princeton and death

In 1887 Warfield was appointed to the
Charles Hodge
Charles Hodge (December 27, 1797 – June 19, 1878) was a Reformed Presbyterian theologian and principal of Princeton Theological Seminary between 1851 and 1878.
He was a leading exponent of the Princeton Theology, an orthodox Calvinist theo ...
Chair at
Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton Theological Seminary (PTSem), officially The Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church, is a Private university, private seminary, school of theology in Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Establish ...
, where he succeeded Hodge's son
A. A. Hodge. Warfield remained there until his death as the last conservative successor to Hodge to live prior to the re-organization of Princeton Seminary. Warfield is often regarded by Protestant scholarship as the last of the
Princeton theologians.
He died in
Princeton, New Jersey
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on February 16, 1921.
Views
Bible
During his tenure, his primary thrust (and that of the seminary) was an authoritative view of the Bible. This view was held in contrast to the
emotionalism of the
revival movements, the
rationalism
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of
higher criticism
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, and the heterodox teachings of various
new religious movement
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s that were emerging. The seminary held fast to the
Reformed
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confessional tradition — that is, it faithfully followed the
Westminster Confession of Faith
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.
Warfield believed that
modernist
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theology was problematic, since it relied upon the thoughts of the Biblical interpreter rather than upon the divine author of Scripture. He therefore preached and believed the doctrine of ''
sola scriptura
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'' — that the Bible is God's inspired word and is sufficient for the Christian to live his or her faith.
Much of Warfield's work centered upon the Bible's "
inspiration" by God — that while the
authors of the Bible were men, the ultimate author was God himself. The growing influence of modernist theology denied that the Bible was inspired, and alternative theories of the origin of the Christian faith were being explored.
After comparing
grammatical
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and
linguistic
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styles found within the Bible itself, modernist scholars suggested that because the human authors had clearly contributed to the writing of the biblical text, the Bible was written by people alone, not God. Warfield was a central figure in responding to this line of thinking by arguing that the supernatural work of the
Holy Spirit
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did not lead to a form of "mechanical" inspiration (whereby the human authors merely wrote down what God dictated to them), but one in which the human author's intellect was fully able to express itself linguistically, while at the same time being supervised by the Holy Spirit to ensure its inspiration. This approach is essential to understanding the view of inspiration held by many Reformed and
Evangelical
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Christians today. '
Verbal plenary inspiration' is the term that has come to describe this view.
Studies in religious experience
Warfield was a conservative critic of much religious
revivalism that was popular in America at the time. He believed that the teachings and experience of this movement were too subjective and therefore too shallow for deep Christian faith. His book ''Counterfeit Miracles'' advocated
cessationism over and against
miracle
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s after the time of the
Apostle
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s. Such attacks did not go unnoticed, and even today Warfield is criticized by proponents of revivalism in the
Pentecostal
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and
Charismatic
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movements. For example,
Jack Deere
Jack Deere is an American charismatic pastor and theologian.
He was an associate professor of Old Testament at Dallas Seminary.
In the late 1980s, he abandoned his earlier theological position, announcing that he had experienced the charismatic ...
wrote ''Surprised by the Power of the Spirit'' with the intention of refuting ''Counterfeit Miracles''. Warfield's book was published before the worldwide spread of
Pentecostalism
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and addressed the issue of claims to the possession of miraculous gifts under the headings, "
Patristic
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and Mediǣval Marvels", "Roman Catholic Miracles", "
Irvingite
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Gifts", "
Faith-Healing" and "
Mind-Cure
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".
Calvinism
Underpinning much of Warfield's theology was his adherence to
Calvinism
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as espoused by the
Westminster Confession of Faith
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. It is sometimes forgotten that, in his battles against
modernism
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on the one hand, and against
revivalism on the other, he was simply expressing the Calvinist faith when applied to certain situations.
It was Warfield's belief that the 16th century Reformers, as well as the 17th century Confessional writers, were merely summarizing the content and application of Scripture. New revelations, whether from the minds of celebrated scholars or popular revivalists, were therefore inconsistent with these confessional statements (and therefore inconsistent with Scripture). Throughout his ministry, Warfield contended that modern world events and thinking could never render such confessions obsolete. Such an attitude still prevails today in many
Calvinist
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churches and Christians who embrace
Calvinism
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.
Evolution
Warfield's views on evolution have been a source of dispute. Scholars
David N. Livingstone and
Mark A. Noll highlighted Warfield's statements on evolution to demonstrate his acceptance of the theory in their article ''A Biblical Inerrantist as Evolutionist''. Theologian
Fred G. Zaspel argues that these statements have led Livingstone and Noll to assume too much about Warfield's views on the subject. Zaspel writes "That Warfield actually committed himself to a doctrine of evolution seems impossible to affirm simply because although there are some indications that he entertained the idea, he never admits to accepting it."
Warfield studied and wrote about
Charles Darwin
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's religious views. In an article on Darwin's religious life, he concluded that Darwin's doctrine of evolution directly expelled Darwin's Christian belief. Warfield writes, "Thus the doctrine of evolution once heartily adopted by him (Darwin) gradually undermined his faith, until he cast off the whole Christianity as an unproven delusion." Warfield did not believe that evolution required such a rejection of faith. His 1889 review of ''The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin'' included this statement: "There have been many evolutionists who have been and have remained theists and Christians."
In his 1915 article ''Calvin's Doctrine of Creation'', Warfield wrote "It should scarcely be passed without remark that Calvin's doctrine of creation is, if we have understood it aright, for all except the souls of men, an evolutionary one. The 'indigested mass,' including the 'promise and potency' of all that was yet to be, was called into being by the simple fiat of God. But all that has come into being since- except the souls of men alone – has arisen as a modification of this original world-stuff by means of the interaction of its intrinsic forces. Not these forces apart from God, of course…"
[.] And further more he says, "What concerns us here is that he
alvinascribed the entire series of modifications by which the primal 'indigested mass,' called 'heaven and earth,' has passed into the form of the ordered world which we see, including the origination of all forms of life, vegetable and animal alike, inclusive doubtless of the bodily form of man, to the second causes as their proximate account. And this, we say, is a very pure evolutionary scheme."
Warfield also points out that, "Calvin doubtless had no theory whatsoever of evolution; but he teaches a doctrine of evolution."
[.] In that same article, Warfield adds a significant footnote: "H. Bavinck in the first of his Stone Lectures ('The Philosophy of Revelation,' 1909, pp. 9–10) remarks: 'The idea of a development is not a production of modern times. It was already familiar to Greek philosophy. More particularly Aristotle raised it to the rank of the leading principle of his entire system by significant distinction between potentia and actus... This idea of development aroused no objection whatsoever in Christian theology and philosophy. On the contrary, it received extension and enrichment by being linked with the principle of theism.' Calvin accordingly very naturally thought along the lines of a theistic evolutionism."
In a separate reference:
Church politics
While he was certainly supportive of political moves within various churches to strengthen and push conservative theology, he was never interested in the actual process itself, preferring to use his work at Princeton to influence future generations of Presbyterian ministers.
Race
Warfield came from a family of
emancipationists and was himself an outspoken opponent of
racial segregation
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and
racism
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at Princeton Seminary. This led to Warfield, when he was principal of the seminary, to allow a black student to live in white university halls, an action which was met by opposition from fellow faculty members. Warfield termed segregation a "wicked
caste system
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" and wrote a number of theological treaties and essays to undermine the segregationist position.
Influence and legacy
Along with
Abraham Kuyper
Abraham Kuyper ( , ; 29 October 1837 – 8 November 1920) was the Prime Minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905, an influential neo-Calvinist pastor and a journalist. He established the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, which upo ...
and
Herman Bavinck
Herman Bavinck (13 December 1854 – 29 July 1921) was a Dutch Calvinist theologian and churchman. He was a significant scholar in the Calvinist tradition, alongside Abraham Kuyper, B. B. Warfield, and Geerhardus Vos.
Biography Backgro ...
, Warfield is acknowledged as one of the major influences on the thought of
Cornelius Van Til
Cornelius Van Til (May 3, 1895 – April 17, 1987) was a Dutch-American Reformed theologian, who is credited as being the originator of modern presuppositional apologetics.
A graduate of Calvin College, Van Til later received his PhD from Pr ...
. However, that influence was limited to certain areas. In
apologetics
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, Warfield was a thoroughgoing evidentialist and the most prominent exponent of the Old Princeton school, whereas van Til, who was the most prominent figure in the Dutch wing of presuppositionalist apologetics, absolutely rejected the central tenets of Old Princeton evidentialism and protested violently against the evidentialism of his contemporary
J. Oliver Buswell.
Warfield's influence on contemporary evangelicalism can be seen in the
Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy
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.
Writings
Books
* ''Dr. Edwin A. Abbott on the Genuineness of Second Peter'' (1883)
* ''Some Difficult Passages in the First Chapter of 2 Corinthians'' (1886)
* ''The Canon of the New Testament: How and When Formed'' (1892)
* ''The Witness of the Stars'' (1893)
* ''Number in Scripture'' (1894, 1921 4th revised edition)
* ''The Right of Systematic Theology'' (1897)
* ''Acts and Pastoral Epistles Timothy, Titus, and Philemon'', Vol. 26 of The Temple Bible (1902)
* ''The Power of God Unto Salvation'' (1903)
* ''The Lord of Glory : A Study of the Designations of Our Lord in the New Testament with Especial Reference to His Deity'', (1907)
* ''The Westminster Assembly and its Work'' (1908)
* ''Commentary on Revelation'' (1909, revised and corrected)
* ''The Religious Life of Theological Students'' (1911)
* ''Concerning Schmiedel's "Pillar-passages."'' (1913)
* ''The Plan of Salvation'' (1915)
* ''The Bible, The Book of Mankind'' (1915)
* ''Faith and Life'' (1916)
* ''The Saviour of the World'' (1916)
* ''Counterfeit Miracles'' (1918)
* ''Are They Few That Be Saved?'' (1918)
* ''The Divine Origin of the Bible''
* ''Biblical Doctrines''
* ''Augustine and the Pelagian Controversy''
* ''Studies in Theology''
* ''The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible''
* ''The Making of the Westminster Confession''
* ''The Emotional Life of Our Lord''
* ''The Person of Christ According to the New Testament''
* ''An Introduction to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament''
;Posthumous works
* ''Perfectionism'': Articles reprinted from periodicals, etc. edited by
Ethelbert Dudley Warfield
Ethelbert Dudley Warfield, D.D., LL.D. (March 16, 1861 – July 6, 1936) was an American professor of history and college president who served as president of Miami University, Lafayette College and Wilson College. As Miami University's younges ...
,
William Park Armstrong, and
Caspar Wistar Hodge (1931)
* ''Calvin and Calvinism'' (1931)
* ''The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible'', edited by
Samuel G. Craig; with an introduction by
Cornelius Van Til
Cornelius Van Til (May 3, 1895 – April 17, 1987) was a Dutch-American Reformed theologian, who is credited as being the originator of modern presuppositional apologetics.
A graduate of Calvin College, Van Til later received his PhD from Pr ...
. (1948)
* ''Biblical and Theological Studies'', edited by
Samuel G. Craig (1952)
Essays and sermons (external links)
Site dedicated to the life and writings of B. B. WarfieldThe Rights of Criticism and of the Church*
ttp://homepage.mac.com/shanerosenthal/reformationink/bbwcalvinism.htm Calvinism - The Meaning And Uses of the Termbr>
The Theology of John CalvinAugustine & The Pelagian Controversy: The Origin & Nature of PelagianismAugustine & The Pelagian Controversy: The Theology of GraceAugustine & The Pelagian Controversy: The External History of the Pelagian Controversy
References and notes
Further reading
*Cousar, R. W., ''Benjamin Warfield: His Christology and Soteriology'', PhD thesis, Edinburgh University, 1954.
*Livingstone, David N. and Mark A. Noll, "B.B. Warfield (1851–1921): A Biblical Inerrantist as Evolutionist," ''Isis'', 91:2 (June 2000), 283-294
*McClanahan, James S., ''Benjamin B. Warfield: Historian of Doctrine in Defense of Orthodoxy'', 1881–1921, PhD thesis, Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, 1988.
* Riddlebarger, Kim. ''The Lion of Princeton: B.B. Warfield as Apologist and Theologian'', Lexham Press (2015),
*Warfield Commemoration Issue, 1921–1971,
The Banner of Truth, no. 89 (Feb. 1971).
*Zaspel, Fred G., ''The Theology of B.B. Warfield: A Systematic Summary'', Crossway (2 Sept 2010), .
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