Sir:
Iain Murray’s excellent, necessarily selective, overview of evangelicalism’s ups and downs (Issues 455-6) reveals the need of more pan-European study of the growth of Liberalism. Schleiermacher, of Moravian background and heart, was very much influenced by British Latidudinarians from whom he gained his love of Natural Law as opposed to revealed law. British Methodism helped …
Posts Tagged Benjamin B. Warfield
The Atonement
Aug 17
… Part III will show how Grotianism was fought in England by John Gill and in America by Benjamin Warfield and how their arguments form a firm basis for tackling modern Governmentalist theories which are masquerading under the name of ‘Evangelical Calvinism’.
Atonement in Evangelical and Liberal Thought: Part III
Natural Law versus revealed or ‘positive’ law
Church history plainly shows that where a faulty view of the law is maintained, an erroneous …
… Biblical and readable Princeton account of New Divinity theology, why did they not include Benjamin Warfield essays? Is this because Warfield attacks New Divinity teaching at its roots and the Banner’s selection at its outer branches? This leads to the question why the Banner has shifted the New Divinity accent from the original Edwards, Bellamy, Dwight, Hopkins and Fuller team to the later extravagances of Finney? Is this because they ally themselves with basic New Divinity …
Writing a hundred years ago, Benjamin Warfield looked on the New Divinity teaching of Jonathan Edwards Jun., Samuel Hopkins and Joseph Bellamy as a lost cause. He felt it had forsaken all traces of Calvinism for Pelagianism, becoming the staple fare of Arminians. He looked upon it as an evangelistic, revivalist movement quite void of a Christian gospel with its rejection of the satisfaction of Christ and the doctrine of …
… spiritual improvement on the wording of the Presbyterian confession.
In Chapter Eight, Benjamin Keach: Baptist Divine, Haykin succeeds convincingly, though very briefly, in depicting the importance and value of Keach’s life and ministry. Haykin obviously sees Keach’s role in the same light that many regard John Gill, namely as one who established, consolidated and equipped the Particular, pardon, Calvinistic Baptists for their entrance into the future. As Haykin is so very …
… of the Spirit in the heart.
The Keach Myth
Now Hulse postulates a breach between Benjamin Keach , a former Goat Yard pastor, a nd Gill on the grounds that Keach used the 1689 Seco nd London Confession, whereas in 1729, Gill deliberately drew up a new Declaration of Fai th substituting the former ‘by his own teaching’ thus leading the church away from Keach’s (a nd we presume Hulse’s) orthodoxy. Hulse argues that this development should act …
What is a Baptist?
Aug 21
Dear Brethren,
Before I had the privilege of joining this symposium, I felt that I knew quite well what a Baptist church was. My simple definition was that a Baptist church consisted of a body of believers who had joined together in fellowship, chosen a pastor and deacons, preferably out of their own midst, and decided, on what they held to be Biblical grounds, to require water …
… to modern ecumenism. It is a view which does less than justice to the eminent usefulness of Benjamin Beddome, Samuel Medley, or John Hirst, all of whom held to a high Calvinistic position, and to the enduring value of the writings of John Gill which are still read and sought after, two hundred years after his death.
G. M. Ella
Fuller and Evangelism
Aug 21
… to modern ecumenism. It is a view which does less than justice to the eminent usefulness of Benjamin Beddome, Samuel Medley, or John Hirst, all of whom held to a high Calvinistic position, and to the enduring value of the writings of John Gill which are still read and sought after, two hundred years after his death.
