On today’s Equipping You in Grace Episode, Dave Jenkins and Kim Riddlebarger talk about the life, ministry, and influence of B.B. Warfield on Reformed theology in his day and today, along with his book The Lion of Princeton: B.B. Warfield as Apologist and Theologian (Lexham Press, 2016).
What you’ll hear in this episode
- A brief sketch of B.B. Warfield’s life and importance to American evangelicalism and the greater Body of Christ.
- What we can learn from how B.B. Warfield’s approach to dealing with and responding to criticism.
- How Warfield’s work on the doctrine of Scripture helps Christians respond to attacks on the doctrine of Scripture today.
- What Christians today can learn from B.B. Warfield’s response to attacks on the person and work of Christ along with his approach to engaging these and other issues.
- What B.B. Warfield can teach those deeply committed to the task and work of theology in the local church about loving and caring for our wives and families.
- What contributions the Old Princeton theologians like Warfield made to the Church of his time and continued to make on the Church today.
- The legacy B.B. Warfield has left for theologians today.
- Why we need men again like B.B. Warfield and what these men look like in their approach to the Christian life and ministry.
- Learning to understand and engage the thought of others for the purpose of contending for the faith.
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Dave Jenkins is happily married to his wife, Sarah. He is a writer, editor, and speaker living in beautiful Southern Oregon. Dave is a lover of Christ, His people, the Church, and sound theology. He serves as the Executive Director of Servants of Grace Ministries, the Executive Editor of Theology for Life Magazine, the Host and Producer of Equipping You in Grace Podcast, and is a contributor to and producer of Contending for the Word. He is the author of The Word Explored: The Problem of Biblical Illiteracy and What To Do About It (House to House, 2021), The Word Matters: Defending Biblical Authority Against the Spirit of the Age (G3 Press, 2022), and Contentment: The Journey of a Lifetime (Theology for Life, 2024). You can find him on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, or read his newsletter. Dave loves to spend time with his wife, going to movies, eating at a nice restaurant, or going out for a round of golf with a good friend. He is also a voracious reader, in particular of Reformed theology, and the Puritans. You will often find him when he’s not busy with ministry reading a pile of the latest books from a wide variety of Christian publishers. Dave received his M.A.R. and M.Div through Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.
