The Heart of Christ: B.B. Warfield on the Emotional Life of Our Lord

About this episode

This episode discusses B.B. Warfield's insights on the emotional life of Christ, emphasizing His true and sinless expressions of humanity.

This episode explores On the Emotional Life of Our Lord by B. B. Warfield, showing that Christ’s compassion, love, anger, joy, and sorrow were true and sinless expressions of His full humanity. As confessed in the Westminster Confession of Faith, He is fully God and fully man, “yet without sin,” and His affections were perfectly ordered in accordance with His holy nature. In this way, the emotional life of Christ belongs to His perfect obedience and reveals the moral beauty of the Savior in the work of our redemption. Learn more at confessional.org Friends in the PCA: please join us for our annual luncheon in Louisville this year! Seats are filling up quickly - register here .

People in this episode

Host: Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary

Topics covered

• emotional life of Christ
• B.B. Warfield
• compassion
• humanity of Christ
• moral beauty of the Savior
• redemption

Keywords

• B.B. Warfield
• emotional life
• Christ
• compassion
• Westminster Confession
• redemption
• humanity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Westminster Confession of Faith

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