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Getting the Old Princetonians Right

February 9, 2011 by Andy Naselli

Books like this are rare:

Paul Kjoss Helseth. “Right Reason” and the Princeton Mind: An Unorthodox Proposal. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2010. 257 pp.

Helseth destroys the fifty-years-old paradigm about the Old Princetonians (esp. Archibald Alexander, A. A. Hodge, B. B. Warfield, and J. Gresham Machen) that postconservative evangelicals continue to use today.

I’ve heard John Woodbridge rave about Helseth’s research on the Princetonians many times. Woodbridge initially encouraged Helseth to write this book, and Woodbridge’s foreword sets the historical stage for how unusual and bold this book is.

You can view a PDF of Woodbridge’s foreword (along with endorsements by scholars like John Frame, Roger Nicole, and Steve Nichols) here.

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  1. JD Crowley says

    February 10, 2011 at 7:09 pm

    Great Machen quotation from the Preface (xxiv): “what we call the will is just the whole man willing, as what we call the intellect is the whole man thinking, and what we call the feelings is the whole man feeling.”

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