“Wicked Caste": B. B. Warfield, Biblical Authority, and Jim Crow

Scholars and churchpeople alike remember B. B. Warfield mostly for the intellectual content of his theology: biblical inerrantism, evidential apologetics, system-building, theistic evolutionism, cessationism. In this article we see him engage in a matter of practical, social theology: race relations...

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Main Author: Gundlach, Bradley J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Soc. 2007
In: The journal of Presbyterian history
Year: 2007, Volume: 85, Issue: 1, Pages: 28-47
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)

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