Princeton Theology was a tradition of conservative, reformed, and Presbyterian theology that thrived at Princeton Theological Seminary and lasted from the founding of the institution in 1812 until the 1920s.

After that point, due to the increasing influence of theological liberalism at the school, the last Princeton theologians left to found

Westminster Theological Seminary.

The school was shaped by several theologians, including Jonathan Edwards and later Princeton theology

included men like Archibald Alexander and B. B. Warfield, Hodge, and their

particular blend of teaching which together with its old school Presbyterian Calvinist Orthodoxy

sought to express a warm evangelicalism and a high standard of scholarship.

William Tenet of the University are considered predecessors to the Princeton theologians. Archibald Alexander, as I said, Charles

Hodge, A.A. Hodge, and B.B. Warfield were major figures promoting Princeton theology.

Gerhard Euse Vos figures promoting Princeton theology.

Gerhardus Vos, Jay Gressum Machen, Cornelius Van Til, Oswald T. Alice, Robert Dick Wilson, and

John Murray were also notable successors of the Princeton theologians.

Of these, only Macian and Wilson represented the American Presbyterian tradition

that was directly influenced by Princeton theology.

Voss and Van Til were Dutch reformed.

Murray was a Scott, but a student undermachian at Princeton who later followed him to Westminster.

Murray and Van Til were both ministers and the

O. P. C. Which Machen founded. But something happened. A liberal shift had been

taking place. It had been eroding the foundations that giants like Warfield, Hodge, and Edwards had

built. Princeton Theological Seminary had been overrun by liberals. In turn, an institution of great magnitude was lost.

And so Westminster Theological Seminary was founded and formed in 1929,

largely under the leadership and funding of J Gresham Machen.

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