Paul K. Helseth

An Introduction to Christian Apologetics

Apologetics

“David Smith’s Introduction to Christian Apologetics is a compelling exploration of how the organic motif is related to the calling of the Christian apologist. . . . By focusing on the work of B. B. Warfield, Smith challenges reigning orthodoxies in the historiography of the American Evangelical experience, and in so doing he retrieves a thoughtful proposal for how Christians can engage the world in which we live without accommodating the world in which we live. I highly recommend this thoughtful and insightful volume.”

B. B. Warfield’s Scientifically Constructive Theological Scholarship

Theology

“Smith's analysis of Warfield's conception of theological science presents a formidable challenge to the standard interpretation of the Princeton mind. Bold, judicious, and compelling, Smith establishes that Warfield was a thoroughgoing Calvinist who recognized that truth is 'organic and unified,' and in so doing dismantles what has come to be known as the Ahlstrom thesis. This book is an important addition to the literature reassessing the place of Old Princeton in the history of American Evangelicalism.”

Old School, New Clothes

Discipleship & Christian Education

“Old School, New Clothes is a compelling response to the triumph of 'neo-Kantian' thinking in the realm of Christian education. Hoch and Smith remind us that because we live in a universe that has already been integrated by God, the integration of faith and learning is not a project to be pursued, but a reality to be discerned. Highly recommended, particularly for its emphasis upon the doctrine of creation and its relevance to the life of the believing mind.”

Warfield on the Christian Life

Christian Living

“B. B. Warfield is among the greatest theologians America has ever produced, and Fred Zaspel is among his greatest living interpreters. Comprehensive, insightful, and remarkably compelling, Zaspel’s Warfield on the Christian Life is a masterful presentation of an understanding of the Christian life that values Christian experience and at the same time is ‘deeply and thoroughly theological.’ While Zaspel’s Warfield is a theological giant who enjoys the well-earned reputation as ‘a theological army of one,’ he is also ‘a theologian of the heart’ who recognizes that believers ‘live unto Christ . . . not out of a vacuum but out of a mind and heart captivated and inflamed by an understanding of God’s . . . saving activity in Christ.’ This book is an important sequel to Zaspel’s systematic summary of Warfield’s theology, for it explains how Warfield could insist that truth ‘fuels Christian living from beginning to end’ without falling prey to a kind of Enlightenment rationalism. Enthusiastically recommended.”