Seeing Christ in All of Scripture: Hermeneutics at Westminster Theological Seminary

Dr. J. Gresham Machen established Westminster Theological Seminary to produce "specialists in the Bible" who would preach and teach ‚"the whole counsel of God." Following Machen's lead, Westminster has historically stood for the truth of Scripture. One dimension of this commitment is that Westminster teaches its students to preach Christ from the entire Bible; from both the Old Testament and the New Testament. In order to fulfill its founding vision, Westminster's faculty members, throughout the seminary's history, have taken an "ex animo" vow, that is, a sincere, heartfelt commitment, to the Westminster Standards. These confessional documents, the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms, are held as the best expression of the system of biblical truth-- "the whole counsel of God"-- thus far developed in the church of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is from these documents that the seminary takes its name. This introduction calls attention to the consistency of b