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Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield

Type: Person

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B. B. Warfield
Benjamin B. Warfield
Warfield, B. B.
Warfield, Benjamin B.
Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge

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1. By Warfield

1.1. Books

Are They Few That Be Saved?
Biblical Doctrines. Vol. 2 of The Works of Benjamin B. Warfield, edited by E. D. Warfield, W. P. Armstrong, and C. W. Hodge.
Calvin and Calvinism. Vol. 5 of The Works of Benjamin B. Warfield, edited by E. D. Warfield, W. P. Armstrong, and C. W. Hodge.
The Canon of the New Testament: How and When Formed.
Christology and Criticism. Vol. 3 of The Works of Benjamin B. Warfield, edited by E. D. Warfield, W. P. Armstrong, and C. W. Hodge.
Counterfeit Miracles.
Critical Reviews. Vol. 10 of The Works of Benjamin B. Warfield, edited by E. D. Warfield, W. P. Armstrong, and C. W. Hodge.
Faith and Life.
An Introduction to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament.
The Lord of Glory: A Study of the Designations of Our Lord in the New Testament with Especial Reference to His Deity.
Perfectionism: Part 1. Vol. 7 of The Works of Benjamin B. Warfield, edited by E. D. Warfield, W. P. Armstrong, and C. W. Hodge.
Perfectionism: Part 2. Vol. 8 of The Works of Benjamin B. Warfield, edited by E. D. Warfield, W. P. Armstrong, and C. W. Hodge.
The Plan of Salvation: Five Lectures.
The Power of God unto Salvation.
Revelation and Inspiration. Vol. 1 of The Works of Benjamin B. Warfield, edited by E. D. Warfield, W. P. Armstrong, and C. W. Hodge.
The Right of Systematic Theology.
The Saviour of the World.
Studies in Tertullian and Augustine. Vol. 4 of The Works of Benjamin B. Warfield, edited by E. D. Warfield, W. P. Armstrong, and C. W. Hodge.
Studies in Theology. Vol. 9 of The Works of Benjamin B. Warfield, edited by E. D. Warfield, W. P. Armstrong, and C. W. Hodge.
The Westminster Assembly and Its Work. Vol. 6 of The Works of Benjamin B. Warfield, edited by E. D. Warfield, W. P. Armstrong, and C. W. Hodge.

1.2. Articles

“The Apologetical Value of the Testaments of the XXII Patriarchs.” The Presbyterian Review, 1880, Vol. 1, Nos. 1–4
“Calvin’s Doctrine of the Knowledge of God.” In Calvin and the Reformation: Four Studies.
“The Deity of Christ.” In The Fundamentals.
“Godhead.” The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.
Introduction to Encyclopedia of Sacred Theology: Its Principles, by Abraham Kuyper.
Introduction to The Work of the Holy Spirit, by Abraham Kuyper.
“Introductory Essay on Augustin and the Pelagian Controversy.” In Saint Augustin: Anti-Pelagian Writings. Vol. 5 of A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, edited by Philip Schaff.
“Inspiration.” The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.
“On the Emotional Life of Our Lord.” In Biblical and Theological Studies.
“Person of Christ.” The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.
“Revelation.” The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.
“Trinity.” The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.

2. About Warfield

2.1. Articles in Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Erickson, Millard J. “Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge (B. B.) (1851–1921).” The Concise Dictionary of Christian Theology. Rev. ed., 216. Wheaton: Crossway, 2001.
Geisler, Norman L. “Warfield, B. B.” Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics, 768–69. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1999.
Gundlach, B. J. “Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge (1851–1921).” Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals, edited by Timothy Larsen, 698–701. Downers Grove: IVP.
Hoffecker, W. Andrew. “Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge (1851–1921).” Dictionary of Christianity in America, edited by Daniel G. Reid, Robert Dean Linder, Bruce L. Shelley, and Harry S. Stout. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1990.
Hope, N. V. “Warfield, Benjamin Breckenridge [sic] (1851–1921).” Who’s Who in Christian History, edited by J. D. Douglas and Philip W. Comfort. Wheaton: Tyndale, 1992.
Kurian, George Thomas, ed. “Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge (1851–1921).” Nelson’s New Christian Dictionary: The Authoritative Resource on the Christian World. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2001.
Lueker, Erwin L., ed. “Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge (1851–1921).” Christian Cyclopedia. St. Louis: Concordia, 1975.
Nicole, Roger. “Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge (1851–1921).” Encyclopedia of the Reformed Faith, edited by Donald K. McKim and David F. Wright, 390–91. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1992.
Noll, Mark A. “B. B. Warfield.” Handbook of Evangelical Theologians, edited by Walter A. Elwell. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998.
Noll, Mark A. “Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge (1851–1921).” New Dictionary of Theology, edited by Sinclair B. Ferguson, David F. Wright, and J. I. Packer, 716–18. Downers Grove: Inter-Varsity, 1988.
Noll, Mark A. “Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge (1851–1921).” Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, edited by Walter A. Elwell. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998.
Pierard, Richard V. “Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge (1851–1921).” New Twentieth-Century Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, edited by J. D. Douglas, 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1991.

2.2. Articles in Journals

Anderson, David R. “Faith according to B. B. Warfield.” In “The Nature of Faith.” Chafer Theological Seminary Journal 5:4 (September 1999): 5.
Bamberg, Stanley W. “Our Image of Warfield Must Go.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 34:2 (June 1991): 229–41.
Clark, David K. “Warfield, Infant Salvation, and the Logic of Calvinism.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 27:4 (December 1984): 459–64.
Fuller, Daniel P. “Benjamin B. Warfield’s View of Faith and History: A Critique in the Light of the New Testament.” Bulletin of the Evangelical Theological Society 11:2 (Spring 1968): 75–83.
Gleason, Randall. “B. B. Warfield and Lewis S. Chafer on Sanctification.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 40:2 (June 1997): 241–55.
Helm, Paul. “B. B. Warfield on Divine Passion.” Westminster Theological Journal 69:1 (Spring 2007): 95–104.
Helseth, Paul Kjoss. “B. B. Warfield on the Apologetic Nature of Christian Scholarship: An Analysis of His Solution to the Problem of the Relationship Between Christianity and Culture.” Westminster Theological Journal 62:1 (Spring 2000): 89–111.
Hoffecker, W. Andrew. “The Devotional Life of Archibald Alexander, Charles Hodge, and Benjamin B. Warfield.” Westminster Theological Journal 42:1 (Fall 1979): 110–29.
Johnson, Gary W. “Warfield, Chafer, and the Reformed Tradition: A Question of Historical Perspective.” Reformation and Revival 6:2 (Spring 1997): 155–59.
Lints, Richard. “Two Theologies or One? Warfield and Vos on the Nature of Theology.” Westminster Theological Journal 54:2 (Fall 1992): 235–53.
McDill, Matthew. “B. B. Warfield and the Inspiration of Scripture.” Faith and Mission 21:3 (Summer 2004): 77–87.
Sawyer, M. James. “B. B. Warfield.” In “Evangelicals and the Canon of the New Testament.” Grace Theological Journal 11:1 (Spring 1990): 32–34.
Sexton, Jason. “Benjamin B. Warfield.” In “NT Text Criticism and Inerrancy.” The Master’s Seminary Journal 17:1 (Spring 2006): 57–59.
Shogren, Gary Steven. “Christian Prophecy and Canon in the Second Century: A Response to B. B. Warfield.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 40:4 (December 1997): 609–26.
Waugh, Barry. “A Manuscript by B. B. Warfield Concerning the Trial of Charles A. Briggs.” Westminster Theological Journal 66:2 (Fall 2004): 401–11.
Zaspel, Fred. “B. B. Warfield on the Trinity.” Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 10:1 (Spring 2006): 58–70.

2.3. Sections in Books

Geisler, Norman. “B. B. Warfield’s Response to Wesleyan Perfectionism.” In Systematic Theology.
Lang, Stephen J. “Benjamin B. Warfield (1851–1921).” In 1,001 Things You Always Wanted to Know about the Holy Spirit, 327.
Piper, John. “A Honeymoon Tragedy.” In Future Grace, 176.
Van Til, Cornelius. “B. B. Warfield on Tertullian. In A Christian Theory of Knowledge.
Van Til, Cornelius. “B. B. Warfield. In The Protestant Doctrine of Scripture.
Warfield, E. D. “Biographical Sketch of Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield.” In Revelation and Inspiration. Vol. 1 of The Works of Benjamin B. Warfield, v-ix.

2.4. Reviews

Lightner, Robert P. Review of vol. 1 of Selected Shorter Writings of Benjamin B. Warfield, by Benjamin B. Warfield, edited by John E. Meeter. Bibliotheca Sacra 127:508 (October 70): 350.
Murray, John. Review of Biblical and Theological Studies, by Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield. Westminster Theological Journal 15:1 (November 1952): 77.
Murray, John. Review of The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible, by Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield. Westminster Theological Journal 11:2 (May 1949): 200–01.
Walvoord, John R. Review of The Person and Work of Christ, by Benjamin B. Warfield. Bibliotheca Sacra 110:439 (July 1953): 268.

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