What Was B. B. Warfield's Stance on Evolution | Bradley Gundlach
Channel: Henry Center
Date: 2018-08-02

Lecture Title - B. B. Warfield on Evolution and Theology

Evangelicals wanting good precedent to embrace evolutionism alongside a robust doctrine of biblical authority often cite Princeton theologian B. B. Warfield as their prime example. J. I. Packer called him a theistic evolutionist, but Warfield in his day expressly refused that position, finding it insufficiently supernaturalistic and impossible to square with scripture on key points. His qualified acceptance of biological evolution is the subject of renewed interpretive disagreement today, and requires careful discrimination of concepts and terms—but the larger and more interesting story concerns the pervasive developmentalism in his theology.

Bradley J. Gundlach (PhD University of Rochester) is Affiliate Professor of Church History and the History of Christian Thought at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is the author of Process and Providence: The Evolution Question at Princeton, 1845-1929 (Eerdmans, 2013).

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