The Word That Would Not Bend

In 1881, B. B. Warfield arrived at Princeton Seminary carrying a conviction that would define his life's work: every syllable of Scripture is God-breathed, wholly without error, and entirely sufficient. Critics called this position naive. The academy pressured him to concede. Warfield did not flinch. He understood something his opponents missed — that the authority of God's Word is not a doctrine we defend out of stubbornness but the very ground on which every other truth stands.…