2011 Benjamin Breckinridge
Warfield Memorial Lecture
Unsought Gifts: Christian Suffering
Friday, June 3rd from 7:00 PM—9:30 PM
And Saturday, June 4th from 9:30AM-12:00PM
Meinders School of Business
On the campus of
Oklahoma City University
The apostle Paul
declares that nothing can happen that can separate us from God’s
love, but this claim
can seem to be anything but true when we are in the midst of great suffering.
Starting
with some instances of
profound suffering, we shall try to understand how we shall someday see any
suffering
that we experience in
this life as God’s gift to us–a gift that will finally result in our rendering
eternal
thanks to him for what
he has done for us in Christ.
Biography
Dr. Mark Talbot
DR. MARK TALBOT is an associate professor of philosophy at
Wheaton College.
He has been on the faculty since 1992. Dr. Talbot has
a B.A. from Seattle Pacific
College and his Ph.D. from the University of
Pennsylvania. His particular areas of interest
include epistemology, philosophy, medieval
theologians, and Protestant scholastics.
He has taught courses on Augustine, Philosophy of
Religion, Locke, Hume, and
Jonathan Edwards. He has published numerous essays,journal
articles, and served as contributing
author to many books. Of particular interest to us,
is the fact that he is soon to publish a
book on the Christian faith and suffering entitled Unsought
Gifts: Christian Suffering.
When Dr. Talbot was seventeen, he fell some fifty feet
off a Tarzan-like rope swing.
The result was a broken back and paralysis from the
waist down. This, along with all of
the long term consequences that come with such a
tragedy, began the journey of resolving
the tension between human tragedy and the goodness of
God. It was a journey that
took Dr. Talbot down many paths, but that ended in an
understanding of Scripture consistent
with Reformed theology; in particular, the
sovereignty of God over every event
of the Christian’s life. It is God’s sovereignty that
makes every event a blessing and gift.
Dr. Talbot resides with his wife, Cindy in Wheaton,
Illinois.
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Location
The
Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield
Professor of Didactic and Polemic Theology
1887-1921
Benjamin
Breckinridge Warfield was born near Lexington, Kentucky on the 5th
of November 1851. He graduated from
Princeton in 1871 with the highest of honors at the age of nineteen, excelling
in mathematics and physics. While
studying in Europe, he announced his intention of preparing for Christian
ministry.
Upon graduating from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1876, he
returned to
In 1887, he was called to
Princeton Theological Seminary to succeed A.A. Hodge as the Charles Hodge
professor of Didactic and Polemic Theology.
He continued in this position for thirty-three years until his death on
the 17th
of February 1921. Dr. Warfield combined
erudition in Greek exegesis, systematic theology, and church history. He was a tireless defender of the Reformed
faith.
The core of the Christian
profession is, according to Warfield, the confession of a supernatural God, who
may and does act in a supernatural mode, and who acting in a supernatural mode
has wrought out for us a supernatural redemption, interpreted in a supernatural
revelation, and applied by the supernatural operations of His Spirit. The starting point of his theology was the
majesty of God and his authority over creation.
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Throughout the history of the Church, the great doctrines of
the faith were forged in the fires of debate as in Pelagius & Augustine,
Luther & Erasmus, Calvin & Eck, and Whitefield & Wesley. In
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