Right Reason and the Princeton Mind (Helseth)

Author: Paul Kjoss Helseth

ISBN: 9781596381438

Binding: paperback

Section: Christianity-General

Were Machen and his predecessors at old Princeton Seminary really the purveyors of an essentially humanistic philosophy rather than the champions of Reformed orthodoxy? This study is grounded in the conviction that the reigning (or 'orthodox') interpretation of the Princeton theology cannot stand, because it ignores the moral rather than the merely rational nature of the Princetonians' thought. The author suggests that old Princeton's religious epistemology is compatible with the assumptions of the Reformed tradition because its emphasis on 'right reason' is moral rather than merely rational.