Architects of Evangelical Intellectual Thought

Abstract

"Last year marked the centenary of a significant moment in the formation of the contemporary evangelical mind. In October 1898, the Dutch Reformed theologian, politician, journalist and educationalist Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) delivered the annual series of Stone Lectures at Princeton Theologtcal Seminary. While in itself this may not seem like a very remarkable event, the core ideas of those lectures have informed and inspired several generations of evangelical thinkers, and there is every evidence today that the influence of these ideas is growing.1 The person most singularly responsible for Kuyper's International reputation was a member the Princeton faculty at the time of his visit: Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (1851-1921). "