Tag Archives: Warfield

Where’s Waldo Wednesday: Did He Say “Impetration”?

By D. G. Hart | Published: May 19, 2010

We are told that God saves us in His mere mercy, by a renovating work of the Holy Spirit, founded on the redeeming work of Christ; and we are told that this renovating work of the Holy Spirit was in order that we might be justified and so become heirs. Here the purchase by the… Read More→

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Forensic Friday: Warfield on Justification

By D. G. Hart | Published: February 26, 2010

Sometimes we are told that Justification by Faith is “out of date.” That would be a pity, if it were true. What it would mean would be that the way of salvation was closed and “no thoroughfare” nailed up over the barriers. There is not justification for sinful men except by faith. The works of… Read More→

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Warfield on the Centrality of Justification

By D. G. Hart | Published: August 7, 2009

In an ongoing attempt to explain why some Reformed Protestants – okay, this one – are concerned about any formulation of doctrine that would de-center justification by faith, the following quotation from Benjamin Warfield is especially apt. It expresses the problem of human sin and the need for perfect righteousness with the sort of clarity… Read More→

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