Cousar, Robert Wilbur

English

Edinburgh Research Archive

Benjamin Warfield: his christology and soteriology

The purpose of this thesis is to present a critical examination of the
thought of Professor Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield in reference to the
doctrines of Christolocr and soteriology. We have been encouraged by
Dr. Lefferts A. Loetscher, Professor of Church History at Princeton
Theological Seminary, to think that in choosing this particular aspect of'
Warfield's thought forinvestigation we have definitely touched on the heart
and soul of his theological labours. Throughout his life Warfield had
a world-wide following which attended diligently each now product from his
pen; nevertheless the theological outlook generally prevailing in this
period (1878-1921) was not one inclined to be friendly to the position
he maintained. Times have changed considerably in the past thirty years, 
however. The theological liberalism almost completely dominant in tho
northern part of the United States at the time of tho World War is today
being largely displaced by the neo-Orthodox "Theology of the Word".

This movement, greatly aided and abetted by the current ecumenical discussions,
has resulted in reawakened interest in the old Princeton School of Theology