GUEST EDITORIAL: BENJAMIN BRECKINRIDGE WARFIELD, 1851–1921

by PAUL HELM in Vol. 7 No. 2 / Oct 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35285/ucc7.2.2021.edi



This year 2021 marks the centenary of the death of the theologian Benjamin B.Warfield. He was a son of the Southern Presbyterian Church. John Meeter summarizes Warfield’s life as follows:
Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield was born into a godly Presbyterian home at “Grasmere,” near Lexington, Kentucky, November 5th, 1851. When only nineteen years of age he was graduated from what is now Princeton University, with the highest honor of his class. After two years of further study and travel abroad he entered Princeton Seminary, graduating in the class of 1876. In 1878 he was appointed instructor, and in 1879 installed as professor of New Testament Exegesis and Literature at Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny. In 1887 he received and accepted, the appointment to the Charles Hodge Chair of Didactic and Polemic Theology at Princeton Seminary; and for thirty-three years, from 1887 to the time of his death in 1921, he served Princeton Seminary and the Presbyterian Church U. S. A. in the Chair made famous by the Alexander-Hodge succession.

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