All students of evangelical theology have read something by Charles Hodge, B. B. Warfield, and J. Gresham Machen. The Princeton Theology will quickly become the indispensable introduction to these theological giants and their works.

Contributing these essays on the Princeton tradition are five leading historical theologians: Andrew Hoffecker, George Marsden, Mark Noll, Stanford Reid, and David Wells.

"The Calvinism of Princeton." writes Mark Noll, "was remark. ably powerful for more than a century from 1812 on." The Princeton Theology stood for divine grace, the moral weakness of humanity, and a salvation won for us by God himself. "These are the themes that the latter day friends of the Princeton Theol-ogy too often neglect and its latter day critics too often avoid," Noll contends. "But these are also the themes that, if they could be revived, might constitute the greatest gift of Old Princeton to the contemporary world."