Author: Lewis CheesemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Differences Between Old and New School Presbyterians
Author: Lewis CheesemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Differences between Old and New School Presbyterians ... With an introductory chapter, by John C. Lord
Author: Lewis CHEESEMANCatalogue of the Library of Princeton Theological Seminary
Author: Princeton Theological Seminary. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The Presbyterian Controversy
Author: Bradley J. LongfieldPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195086740
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Longfield explores a bitter theological controversy that wracked the Presbyterian Church in the 1920s and 30s. By examining the lives and thought of six of the major protagonists he seeks to provide a fuller understanding of the religious and cultural issues in the struggle.
A Kingdom Divided
Author: April E. HolmPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807167738
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
A Kingdom Divided uncovers how evangelical Christians in the border states influenced debates about slavery, morality, and politics from the 1830s to the 1890s. Using little-studied events and surprising incidents from the region, April E. Holm argues that evangelicals on the border powerfully shaped the regional structure of American religion in the Civil War era. In the decades before the Civil War, the three largest evangelical denominations diverged sharply over the sinfulness of slavery. This division generated tremendous local conflict in the border region, where individual churches had to define themselves as being either northern or southern. In response, many border evangelicals drew upon the “doctrine of spirituality,” which dictated that churches should abstain from all political debate. Proponents of this doctrine defined slavery as a purely political issue, rather than a moral one, and the wartime arrival of secular authorities who demanded loyalty to the Union only intensified this commitment to “spirituality.” Holm contends that these churches’ insistence that politics and religion were separate spheres was instrumental in the development of the ideal of the nonpolitical southern church. After the Civil War, southern churches adopted both the disaffected churches from border states and their doctrine of spirituality, claiming it as their own and using it to supply a theological basis for remaining divided after the abolition of slavery. By the late nineteenth century, evangelicals were more sectionally divided than they had been at war’s end. In A Kingdom Divided, Holm provides the first analysis of the crucial role of churches in border states in shaping antebellum divisions in the major evangelical denominations, in navigating the relationship between church and the federal government, and in rewriting denominational histories to forestall reunion in the churches. Offering a new perspective on nineteenth-century sectionalism, it highlights how religion, morality, and politics interacted—often in unexpected ways—in a time of political crisis and war.
The Bibliotheca Sacra and Biblical Repository
Author: The International Cyclopedia
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Differences Between Old and New School Presbyterians
Author: Lewis CheesemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The Biblical Repository and Classical Review
Author: Charles Hodge
Author: Paul C. GutjahrPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190453877
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Charles Hodge (1797-1878) was one of nineteenth-century America's leading theologians, owing in part to a lengthy teaching career, voluminous writings, and a faculty post at one of the nation's most influential schools, Princeton Theological Seminary. Surprisingly, the only biography of this towering figure was written by his son, just two years after his death. Paul C. Gutjahr's book is the first modern critical biography of a man some have called the "Pope of Presbyterianism." Hodge's legacy is especially important to American Presbyterians. His brand of theological conservatism became vital in the 1920s, as Princeton Seminary saw itself, and its denomination, split. The conservative wing held unswervingly to the Old School tradition championed by Hodge, and ultimately founded the breakaway Orthodox Presbyterian Church. The views that Hodge developed, refined, and propagated helped shape many of the central traditions of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American evangelicalism. Hodge helped establish a profound reliance on the Bible among Evangelicals, and he became one of the nation's most vocal proponents of biblical inerrancy. Gutjahr's study reveals the exceptional depth, breadth, and longevity of Hodge's theological influence and illuminates the varied and complex nature of conservative American Protestantism.