Benjamin B. Warfield — The Right of Systematic Theology, with an introduction by James Orr (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1897).
The introduction by James Orr, and Warfield’s article on the right of systematic theology to exist, first printed in The Presbyterian and Reformed Review. Against the claims that Christianity is life and not doctrine, fact and not theory, feeling and not thought, and that doctrine is only a passing form, Warfield argues from Christianity’s own character: it comes as truth, makes its appeal to the mind, and so asks to be set in order. He draws on the French and German writers of the day, Sabatier, Astié, Bois, Rivier, Ritschl and others.