Theologians are not Confessions

In addition to the Scriptures and the Confessions, there are the writings of great Reformed theologians. There are first the works of John Calvin, then the works of the three great men of recent Reformed theology, Abraham Kuyper, Herman Bavinck, and Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield. All Reformed men hold these theologians in high esteem, and to differ from them is a serious matter. Other men of great stature, too, have written in exposition and defense of the Reformed Faith, but the writings of none have confessional standing.

 

Cornelius Van Til, The Defense of the Faith (Philadelphia, PA: The Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1955), 3