Studies in Perfectionism, Part 1

Benjamin B. Warfield — Studies in Perfectionism, part 1, volume VII of his works (New York: Oxford University Press, 1931). Published in 1931, it is in the public domain in the United States; the committee’s prefatory note and the other editorial matter of the volume may still be in copyright elsewhere.

The German half of Warfield’s study of perfectionism, the seventh volume of his works: Albrecht Ritschl and His Doctrine of Christian Perfection (two articles), “Miserable-Sinner Christianity” in the Hands of the Rationalists (three articles, from Ritschl and Wernle to Pfleiderer and Windisch), “Die Heiligungsbewegung” (the German Fellowship Movement and its sanctification teaching, from Pearsall Smith’s campaign to the Gnadau Conference), and The German Higher Life Movement in Its Chief Exponent, Theodor Jellinghaus. Warfield asks of each what the perfectionism of the day taught and how far the claim to sinlessness agrees with the Reformed doctrine of sin and grace. Most of the articles first appeared in The Princeton Theological Review (1919-20); Die Heiligungsbewegung in Bibliotheca Sacra and the study of Jellinghaus in The Biblical Review (1919).

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Contents (8)

1. Prefatory Note
2. Albrecht Ritschl and His Doctrine of Christian Perfection, Article I
3. Albrecht Ritschl and His Doctrine of Christian Perfection, Article II
4. “Miserable-Sinner Christianity” In the Hands of the Rationalists, Article I
5. “Miserable-Sinner Christianity” In the Hands of the Rationalists, Article II
6. “Miserable-Sinner Christianity” In the Hands of the Rationalists, Article III
7. “Die Heiligungsbewegung”
8. The German Higher Life Movement In Its Chief Exponent