Faith & Life
Weight | 0.54 kg |
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Dimensions | 19.6 × 13.3 × 3.2 cm |
ISBN | 9780851515854 |
Binding | Cloth-bound |
Format | Book |
Original Pub Date | 1916 |
Banner Pub Date | Dec 1, 1974 |
Topic | General Theology, Prayer |
Page Count | 464 |
Scripture | Whole Bible |
Book Description
B.B. Warfield stands as one of the greatest of Reformed theologians. He taught for over thirty years at Princeton Seminary, achieving an enormous output of learned and massive books and articles in defence of historic Calvinism.
Faith and Life reveals another side of the man. Warfield kept up the Princeton tradition of Sunday afternoon classes with the students of the Seminary in which, in his own words, ‘the deeper currents of Christian faith and life’ were explored. This book contains some of the memorable addresses he gave on those occasions. Always based on careful use of Scripture (Warfield has been called ‘a master of the Scripture’s meaning’), they are informal yet restrained, urgent yet tender.
The learned theologian had a child-like confidence in his Saviour and in the reality of his own Christian experience. He once told his students, ‘In your case there can be no “either-or”, either a student or a man of God. You must be both.’ Warfield himself was both, as these pages reveal.
Among the various subjects dealt with, two stand out: the work of the Spirit in conviction, faith, adoption, and prayer; and the need for true devotion to Christ and his cause.
Although, on Warfield’s death, Gresham Machen believed that ‘old Princeton’ had died with him, this book can help the type of piety, long eclipsed, for which Warfield stood, to shine forth in its fulness again.
Table of Contents Expand ↓
The Cause of God 1 Kings 19:9 | 1 | |
Old Testament Religion Psalm 51:12 | 14 | |
The Wrath of Man Psalm 76:10 | 24 | |
For Christ’s Sake Matthew 5:11 | 32 | |
This- and Other-Worldliness Matthew 6:33 | 43 | |
Light and Shining Mark 4:21-25 | 53 | |
Childlikeness Mark 10:15 | 65 | |
The Glory of the Word John 1:1 | 81 | |
Looking to Men John 5:44 | 93 | |
A Half-learned Christ John 6:68, 69 | 103 | |
The Conviction of the Spirit John 16:8-11 | 116 | |
Christ’s Prayer for His People John 17:15 | 128 | |
The Outpouring of the Spirit Acts 2:16, 17 | 135 | |
Prayer as a Means of Grace Acts 9:11 | 146 | |
Surrender and Consecration Acts 22:10 | 154 | |
The Summation of the Gospel Acts 26:18 | 165 | |
The Spirit’s Testimony to Our Sonship Romans 8:16 | 179 | |
The Spirit’s Help in Our Praying Romans 8:26, 27 | 193 | |
All Things Working Together for Good Romans 8:28 | 202 | |
Man’s Husbandry and God’s Bounty 1 Corinthians 3:5-9 | 211 | |
Communion in Christ’s Body and Blood 1 Corinthians 10:16, 17 | 222 | |
The Spirit of Faith 2 Corinthians 4:13 | 231 | |
New Testament Puritanism 2 Corinthians 6:11-7:1 | 243 | |
Paul’s Great Thanksgiving Ephesians 1:3-14 | 259 | |
Spiritual Strengthening Ephesians 3:16 | 267 | |
The Fulness of God Ephesians 3:19 | 279 | |
The Sealing of the Holy Spirit Ephesians 4:30 | 289 | |
Working Out Salvation Philippians 2:12, 13 | 298 | |
The Alien Righteousness Philippians 3:9 | 314 | |
Peace with God Philippians 4:7 | 326 | |
The Heritage of the Saints in Light Colossians 1:12 | 340 | |
The Hidden Life Colossians 3:1-4 | 350 | |
Entire Sanctification 1 Thessalonians 5:23, 24 | 361 | |
The Mystery of Godliness 1 Timothy 3:16 | 373 | |
The Inviolate Deposit 1 Timothy 6:20, 21 | 385 | |
The Way of Life Titus 3:4-9 | 393 | |
The Eternal Gospel 2 Timothy 1:9, 10 | 402 | |
Communion with Christ 2 Timothy 2:11-13 | 415 | |
Prayer as a Practice James 5:16 | 428 | |
God’s Holiness and Ours 1 Peter 1:15 | 440 | |
Childship to God 1 John 2:28-3:1 | 448 |
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Description
Some of the memorable addresses the author gave to his Princeton students on Sunday afternoons. 464pp.
Description
Some of the memorable addresses the author gave to his Princeton students on Sunday afternoons. 464pp.
andrew_schreiber –
Warfield’s reputation as one of the preeminent Reformed theologians is well-earned, and his writings on that account can prove somewhat intimidating to read. They are deep & weighty (although very much worth the time & effort).
But this book is Warfield at his most accessible and readable. There is a simplicity to it, even a devotional quality. If you have never read Warfield before, and especially if you have refrained from reading his works for fear of its apparent difficulty, I would highly recommend that you start here with this book. I basically just read a chapter per day, and found it very enjoyable and edifying.