In his address called The Religious Life of Theological Students,
delivered at Princeton Theological Seminary on the 4th of October 1911,
Benjamin B. Warfield stressed the need for servants of God to be both
learned and religious. The man without learning, Warfield noted, no
matter with what other gifts he may be endowed, is unfit for his duties.
Because he was addressing students in particular, the burden of his
lecture was on their “religious” or spiritual life—that is, Warfield was
warning these students about the dangers of studying apart from
worship, of seeking knowledge apart from godliness. Severing knowledge
and godliness is indeed perilous to the soul. Apart from godliness,
knowledge merely puffs up into vanity and pride; apart from knowledge,
godliness proves thin and unstable, tossing one about by every wind
of doctrine.
Considering our own context broadly, it is perhaps the latter danger
that faces the church of Jesus Christ most urgently—namely, the pretense
of seeking godliness apart from knowledge. Continue at L. Michael Morales
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