My friend Guy Davies has interviewed Philip Eveson, the recently retired principal of London Theological Seminary.

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Whilst re-reading an excellent essay on Old Princeton I came across this superb quotation from Charles Hodge:"The knowledge of Christ," he argued, "...is not the apprehension of what he is, simply by the intellect, but also a due apprehension of his glory as a divine person arrayed in our nature, and involves not as its consequence merely, but as one of its elements, the corresponding feeling of adoration, delight, desire and complacency."From Paul Kjoss Helseth "Are Postconservative Evangelicals Fundamentalists? Postconservative Evangelicalism, Old Princeton, and the Rise of Neo-Fundamenta... [read more]

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Please excuse the anachronism of the title. "Inerrancy" is a nineteenth century word. But the thing itself was there before the word. Reading a little John Owen today I came across some passing comments about the necessary truthfulness of God's speech. Or, in other words, what God has spoken is necessarily inerrant (contrary to recent claims by Andy McGowan that I have responded to here).In his "Disseration on Divine Justice" John Owen takes aim at the heretical Socinians who deny penal substitution. He also seeks to straighten out some of the Reformed orthodox who were weakening the a... [read more]

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From his commentary on Psalm 130:Whenever God then exhibits the tokens of his wrath, let even the man who seems to others to be the holiest of all his fellows, descend to make this confession, that should God determine to deal with us according to the strict demands of his law, and to summon us before his tribunal, not one of the whole human race would be able to stand...But the Prophet...confesses, after having thoroughly examined himself, that if of the whole human race not even one can escape eternal perdition, this instead of lessening rather increased his obnoxiousness to punishment. W... [read more]

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Kim Riddlebarger has started a new series on B. B. Warfield here. If there was a top ten of the most maligned, most misunderstood, and least read, theological giants of the past, Warfield would probably come in at No. 1. Which is a tragedy. Here are the opening paragraphs: During his thirty-four year reign as the ranking theologian at Princeton Theological Seminary, Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (1851-1921) exerted tremendous influence upon much of American Presbyterianism. With his lucid pen and his passion to defend the Westminster Standards, there was little doubt about where Warf... [read more]

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Murray and I&I on Hosea 11:1 and Matthew 2:15 A complaint, frequently voiced within the faculty and elsewhere, is that those with fundamental objections to I&I deal solely in doctrinal generalities and fail to engage the specific problem texts that I&I addresses. The following observations concern one such perceived problem. In John Murray’s Collected Writings, 1 is an address (pp. 23 –26), “The Unity of the Old and New Testaments.” I commend reading it in its entirety. It concludes with the following two paragraphs: The events of New Testament realization, as noted, afford v... [read more]

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More from Richard Gaffin's response to Peter Enn's Inspiration & Incarnation and the sad controversy at Westminster Theological Seminary. HTFC=Historical and Theological Field Committee HFC=Hermeneutics Field Committee Gaffin continues... Some of the blog commenting subsequent to the WTS board’s release of documents is quite confident that the HFC Reply thoroughly refutes the HTFC Response to I&I and shows that there are no credible objections to the orthodoxy of Dr. Enns and I&I. Especially those animated with such confidence may want to consider the following - beyond the telling su... [read more]

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As a follow up to this post, here are some observations by Iain Murray on the impact of Liberal theology on the Free Church, and the poignant story of Ferdinand Christian Baur's unbelief:The school of men who undid the commitment of the Free Church to the Bible did not stem the attack of naturalistic thinking on Christianity. Instead they accelerated it, and introduced the unbelief of the world into the Church.They did so...while ever promising the opposite result. Yet this very assurance was being given when the results of higher criticism upon the German churches were already known and ... [read more]

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The age's progress fears no God,No righteous law, no Judge's throne;Man bounds along his new-found road,And calls the universe his own.Old misbelief becomes earth's creed;The falsehood lives, the truth has died;Man leans upon a broken reed,And falls in helplessness of pride.He spurns the hand that would have led,The lips that would have spoken love;The Book that would his soul have fed,And taught him wisdom from above.Eternal Light, hide not Thy face;Eternal Truth, direct our way;Eternal Love, shine forth in grace,Reveal our darkness and Thy day!Horatius Bonar

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The full document can be found here. Gaffin's critique of Enns continues:A perception present among faculty supporters of I&I and others (for instance, many on the SOS website) is that opposition within the faculty to it and its major emphases is driven by an unduly restrictive and exegetically uninformed and disinterested confessionalism that signals, among other things, an abandonment of interest in biblical theology and the tradition of redemptive-historical interpretation that have been an important and distinctive part of the training provided by WTS over the years.I disagree with thi... [read more]

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