Warfield on the Christian Life: Living Life in the Light of the Gospel (Theologians on the Christian Life)
Overview
B. B. Warfield is well-known as one of America’s leading theologians, perhaps second only to Jonathan Edwards. But until now the character of his own Christian experience and his understanding of the Christian life have remained unexplored. Fred Zaspel unpacks these for us here, and what we find is that Warfield’s profound theological mind is matched only by his passionate heart for Christ. From Warfield we learn truly what it is to live in light of the gospel.
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Key Features
- Critically analyzes, quotes, and applies these four major Christian influences
- Questions what the Christian life is supposed to look like
- Challenges readers to live their convictions
Top Highlights
“For him a miracle is nothing less than the immediate working of God above nature and apart from second causes. A miracle is that which cannot occur or be explained in terms of anything natural. And for him this is Christianity exactly—a supernatural religion, grounded in supernatural revelation, delivered and written for us by supernaturally inspired apostles and prophets, accomplished in a supernatural redemption by a supernatural Redeemer, and lived out in us by the supernatural influence and enablement of none other than the Spirit of God himself.” (Page 19)
“Virtually the entire faith was being recast in thoroughly naturalistic terms, and Warfield vigorously gave himself to the exposition and defense of Christian supernaturalism—a supernatural God, a supernatural revelation, a supernatural Savior, and a supernatural salvation produced by nothing less than the supernatural workings of the Spirit of God. All this and nothing less, Warfield was deeply convinced, could enable us to sing not only Deo gloria, but soli Deo gloria.” (Page 30)
“For Warfield theology is not merely some added, optional dimension to the Christian life: it is the very stuff of Christian living. The Christian life is founded on and fostered by truth.” (Page 37)
“Warfield warns that to be indifferent to Christian doctrine is, simply, to be indifferent to Christianity itself.” (Page 39)
“What but his love for us could explain his constant pursuit of us even in our most determined unfaithfulness?” (Page 88)
Praise for the Print Edition
We are already indebted to Fred Zaspel for his work The Theology of B. B. Warfield—a book that has introduced a new generation to the voluminous writings of a Princeton scholar who was both New Testament interpreter and systematic theologian.
—D. A. Carson, research professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
In Warfield on the Christian Life we are given the privilege of sitting at the feet of a Christ-centered, Bible-saturated, gospel-loving theologian of the first rank and learning how to say, ‘To me to live is Christ.’ A very welcome addition to what promises to be a valuable series.
—Sinclair B. Ferguson, senior minister, First Presbyterian Church, Columbia, SC
Zaspel’s Warfield on the Christian Life is a masterful presentation of an understanding of the Christian life that values Christian experience and at the same time is ‘deeply and thoroughly theological.’
—Paul Kjoss Helseth, associate professor of Christian thought, Northwestern College
B. B. Warfield looms large in the Protestant imagination as a theologian, one of the giants in the land. What is less well known are the details and dynamics of his own approach to the Christian life. Fred Zaspel has already written a substantial volume on Warfield as theologian; now he opens up for us the world of Warfield’s practical Christianity. Once again, fans of the great Princetonian are in for a treat, and are deeply and delightfully in debt to Dr. Zaspel.
—Carl R. Trueman, Paul Woolley Professor of Church History, Westminster Theological Seminary
- Title: Warfield on the Christian Life: Living in Light of the Gospel
- Author: Fred G. Zaspel
- Series: Theologians on the Christian Life
- Publisher: Crossway
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge, 1851-1921; Christian life
- Resource ID: LLS:WRFLDCHRSTNLF
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-06-08T17:05:00Z
