This book combines two of my loves in literature: biography and theology
Zaspel completed a short summary of Warfield’s life that didn’t drag you down into the ins and outs, but gave you a clear and concise, personal look into the professor and writer’s life. He gave you enough to feel like you weren’t a stranger and could understand some of what shaped this thinker’s life.
The other part of the book is like a theology book that is thinner and more applicable. He highlights some of Warfield’s main thoughts and gives you reason and application into the Christian life. Topics range from the incarnation to the authority of the Bible.
My favorite quote:
“Ultimately his was a first for the gospel. Consistently at the center of Warfield’s attention was the glorious message of the divine rescue for sinners. If the attack was on the person of Christ, his concern was not academic only but soteriological – that we would be left without a Savior and without a gospel. If the attack was concerning the integrity of the Scriptures, his concern was not one of party spirit. It was that in the end we would be left without witness to Christ and, indeed, with a Christ who is himself mistaken as to the nature and authority of the book that was written about Him. If the attack was an Arminian one, his concern was that the gospel would be so watered down as to devalue Christ and render him much less than the mighty Savior He is.” – pg 31