2011 Lecture Series: Unsought Gifts: Christian Suffering
Speaker
Mark Talbot
Date
June 3 - June 4, 2011
Location
Meinders School of Business, Oklahoma City University
Oklahoma City, OK
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Mission
The core of the Christian profession is, according to Warfield, the confession of a supernatural God, who may and does act in a supernatural mode, and who acting in a supernatural mode has wrough out for us a supernatural redemption, interpreted in supernatural revelation, and applied by the supernatural operations of His Spirit. The starting point of his theology was the majesty of God and his authority over creation.
Goals
Throughout the history of the Church, the great doctrines of the faith were forged in the fires of debate as in Pelagius & Augustine, Luther & Erasmus, Calvin & Eck, and Whitefield & Wesley. Through this lecture series, it is the desire to:
1. Promote the exchange and examination of the great historic doctrines of the Church.
2. Foster a corporate sense of the relevance of the Christian faith and Reformed theology to our culture.
3. Challenge the individual believer to connect with the historic Christian faith and the Church.
History
Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield was born near Lexington, Kentucky on the 5th of November in 1851. He graduated from Princeton in 1871 with the highest of honors at the age of nineteen, exceling in mathematics and physics. While studying in Europe, he announced his intention to preparing for Christian ministry.
Upong graduating from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1876, he returned to Europe again to further his studies. Returning to America, Warfield served a short period as a pastor and then accepted a position in the Department of New Testament Language and Literature at Western Theological Seminary. He remained there for nine years.
In 1887, he was called to Princeton Theological Seminary to aucceed A.A. Hodge as the Charles Hodge professor of Didactic and Polemic Theology. He continued in this position for thirty-three years until his death on th 17th of February 1921. Dr. Warfield combined erudition in Greek exegesis, systematic theology, and church history. He was a tireless defender of the Reformed faith.
Sponsor
This lecture series is sponsored by:
Grace Bible Church
241 W. Wilshire
Oklahoma City, OK
www.gbcok.org
