Happy Birthday B.B. Warfield

Today would be B.B. Warfield's 153rd birthday, and if we were in Old Testament times, maybe he'd be around to celebrate this and eat some cake and ice cream. But he's not, he passed away in 1921, and left behind a great legacy of which the Church has been able to benefit from.
Warfield, along with A.A. Hodge, was one of the first to use the term "plenary" inspiration with regard to Scripture. During the time Warfield was teaching at Princeton, theological liberalism was coming to America, mostly from German schools of thought, but it was internal as well, and now the Bible was being deemed as not really authoritative and not really inspired by many in the academic field. With this being the challenge Christians faced, Warfield took source criticism head on and wrote many polemical articles, and most notably, The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible.

B.B. Warfield was a man who committed his life to the authority of Scripture and the purity of the Church in doctrine and practice, and we all benefit from that today.

Book of the day The Works of B.B. Warfield.