Andrew hoffecker biography

As a Professor of Religion at Grove City College for 25 years, he taught a wide variety of classes: Church History, Apologetics, Systematic Theology, Missions.
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Beauty and the Princeton Piety

The Princeton Theology was an attempt to maintain Reformed theology and experience in America during the nineteenth and the opening decades of the twentieth centuries. The men at Princeton staunchly defended the objective elements in the Christian faith against the increasing number and intensity of attacks upon Calvinism from both within and without the Church. But they also advocated a clearly definable Princeton piety. The subject of religious experience was as integral to the content of the Princeton Theology as was any discussion of strictly doctrinal issues. Critics have largely neglected this aspect of the writings of men such as Archibald Alexander, Charles and A.A. Hodge, and Benjamin B. Warfield. Passing reference is occasionally made to the fact that personal piety was important, but these critics have charged that their piety was of little consequence in mitigating an essentially intellectualistic approach to the Christian faith. The resulting impression is that religious experience was eclipsed by an emphasis on doctrine and that the

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Education

Dickinson College, B.A.
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, MDiv
Brown University, Ph.D.

About Dr. Hoffecker

Dr. W. Andrew Hoffecker, Professor of Church History Emeritus, brings extensive teaching experience to the RTS campus. As a Professor of Religion at Grove City College for 25 years, he taught a wide variety of classes: Church History, Apologetics, Systematic Theology, Missions, Medieval Philosophy, C. S. Lewis’ Apologetics, and Christianity and Culture, to name a few. He received his B.A. from Dickinson College, his MDiv from Gordon-Conwell and his Ph.D. from Brown University. He also served as a Captain in the United States Army. Dr. Hoffecker has contributed numerous historical articles in the Evangelical Dictionary of Theology and the Dictionary of Christianity in America as well as longer pieces on Benjamin B. Warfield in Makers of Christian Theology in America and C. S. Lewis in The Cresset. His doctoral work in the theology of Old Princeton resulted in Piety and the Princeton Theologians (1981) and will be further explored in his forthcoming biograp

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Charles Hodge and “Old Princeton” (W. Andrew Hoffecker)

In the most recent issue of Credo Magazine, “Old Princeton,” W. Andrew Hoffecker has contributed an excellent article introducing us to Charles Hodge. Hoffecker’s article is entitled, “Charles Hodge and ‘Old Princeton.'”

But first, a little about Dr. Hoffecker. W. Andrew Hoffecker is Professor of Church History Emeritus at Reformed Theological Seminary. Previously he was a Professor of Religion at Grove City College for 25 years, where he taught a wide variety of classes: Church History, Apologetics, Systematic Theology, Missions, Medieval Philosophy, C. S. Lewis’ Apologetics, and Christianity and Culture, to name a few. He received his B.A. from Dickinson College, his M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell and his Ph.D. from Brown University. He also served as a Captain in the United States Army. His doctoral work in the theology of Old Princeton resulted in Piety and the Princeton Theologians (1981) and is further explored in his most recent biography, Charles Hodge: The Pride o