Archibald Alexander

And what it is, it's a collection of essays by Princeton faculty.

So you have, of course, Charles Hodge, His predecessor, Archibald Alexander, and his sons, J.W. Alexander, or one son, J.W., James Waddell.

And then others, Samuel Miller is in here.

He wrote, you know, the book, you could say, on elders.

There's a beautiful thing called The Lord Jesus Christ, the Example of the Minister.

But this is a chapter that would work easily for an elder to read.

These Archibald Alexander talking about aiming at eminent piety.

Anyway, this is one of Jonathan Master's favorite books.

A synonym of elenctic is another word you don't see every day, and that's polemical.

Archibald Alexander, back in the early 1800s, a professor of theology at Princeton.

His actual title at Princeton Theological Seminary, his actual title was Professor of Didactic and Polemical Theology.

His successor, Charles Hodge, had an even more expanded title.

J- uh, Jim Gerritsen has done a number of books like this.

This is Presbyterian Catnip, but this is basically a biography on James Alexander, Archibald Alexander's son, and lots of things I didn't know about him, and sort of, uh, struggles with, we would say, some anxiety and melancholy, but I, I loved that.

Uh, I've just started a new biography on Thomas More.

I got a big book, I can't decide if I'm gonna... how much I'm gonna read, on the Salem witch trials.

Don't linger.

Archibald Alexander says, this is truly the worst pain that a human being can feel this side of heaven.

When you see them afflicted in despair, tormented in their soul, Luther says, run to them.

Reach out your hand.