Princeton theologians

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Calvinism

John Calvin

Background Christianity St. Augustine The Reformation

Distinctives Calvin's Institutes Five Solas Five Points (TULIP) Regulative principle Confessions of faith

Influences Theodore Beza Synod of Dort Puritan theology Jonathan Edwards Princeton theologians Karl Barth

Churches Reformed Presbyterian Congregationalist Reformed Baptist

Peoples Afrikaner Calvinists Huguenots Pilgrims Puritans This box: view • talk • edit

The Princeton theology is a tradition of conservative, Christian, Reformed and Presbyterian theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The appellation has special reference to certain theologians, from Archibald Alexander to B.B. Warfield, and their particular blend of teaching, which together with its Old School Presbyterian Calvinist orthodoxy sought to express a warm Evangelicalism and a high standard of scholarship.

By extension, the Princeton theologians include those predecessors of Princeton Theological Seminary who prepared the groundwork of that theological tradition, and the successors who tried, and failed, to preserve the seminary against the inroads of a program to better conform that graduate school to "Broad Evangelicalism", which was imposed upon it through the Presbyterian Church (USA).

[edit] Predecessors

• William Tennent, Sr. (Log College)
• Gilbert Tennent (College of New Jersey)
• William Tennent, Jr. (College of New Jersey)
• Jonathan Edwards (Princeton University)

[edit] The Princeton theology

• Archibald Alexander
• Charles Hodge
• A. A. Hodge
• B. B. Warfield

[edit] Successors

• Geerhardus Vos (Princeton)
• J. Gresham Machen (Princeton/Westminster)
• Cornelius Van Til (Princeton/Westminster)
• Oswald T. Allis (Princeton/Westminster)
• Robert Dick Wilson (Princeton/Westminster)
• Professor John Murray (Westminster)

Of these, only Machen and Wilson represented the American Presbyterian tradition that was directly influenced by the Princeton theolgy. Vos and Van Til were Dutch Reformed. Murray was a Scot, but a student under Machen at Princeton who later followed him to Westminster Theological Seminary, and was ordained in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, as was Van Til.