Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (November 5, 1851 – February 16, 1921) was professor of theology at Princeton Seminary from 1887 to 1921. Some conservative Presbyterians

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 consider him to be the last of the great Princeton theologians

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 before the split in 1929 that formed Westminster Seminary

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 and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church

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Warfield was born near Lexington, Kentucky

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 on November 5, 1851. His parents were William and Mary Cabell (Breckinridge) Warfield, originally from Virginia and quite wealthy.