Author: William Dool KillenPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 286
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The Plea of Presbytery in Behalf of the Ordination, Government, Discipline, and Worship of the Christian Church, as Opposed to the Unscriptural Character and Claims of Prelacy, in a Reply to the Rev. Archibald Boyd ... on Episcopacy
Author: William Dool KillenThe plea of presbytery in behalf of the ordination government, discipline, and worship of the Christian church, as opposed to the Christian church, as opposed to the unscriptural character and claims of prelacy
Author: The Plea of Presbytery in Behalf of the Ordination, Government, Discipline, and Worship of the Christian Church, as Opposed to the Unscriptural Character and Claims of Prelacy, in a Reply to the Rev. Archibald Boyd ... on Episcopacy
Author: William Dool KillenThe Plea of Presbytery in Behalf of the Ordination, Government, Discipline, and Worship of the Christian Church, as Opposed to the Unscriptural Character and Claims of Prelacy
Author: Archibald BoydPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483072886
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Excerpt from The Plea of Presbytery in Behalf of the Ordination, Government, Discipline, and Worship of the Christian Church, as Opposed to the Unscriptural Character and Claims of Prelacy: In a Reply to the Rev. Archibald Boyd, A. M., On Episcopacy It is to be regretted, that the nature of the following work has prevented us from exhibiting more fully the symmetry and strength of the Presbyterian polity. We believe that Presbyterianism presents the only perfect form of church government. According to the system of the English church, the chief management of ecclesiastical affairs is committed to those who are in a great measure irresponsible, for the highest functionaries are themselves under no spiritual oversight. If it be alleged that they are amenable to the crown, a gross deficiency is thus acknowledged, for it is admitted that_ the spiritual acts of the most exalted office-bearers of the church are subject to the revision and condemnation of a lay superior. The Presbyterian Church places all its members under complete control. The humblest individual in a congrega tion is not liable to be oppressed by the tyranny of the minister, for he is ac countable only to the session, or the eldership - the most distinguished pastor cannot spurn the restraints of ecclesiastical discipline, for he must bow to the decisions of his brethren of the Presbytery. Presbyterianism is the only system which carries out into full and efficient operation the spirit of the apostolical injunction, Yea, all of you be subject one to another. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Plea of Presbytery
Author: William Dool KillenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church polity
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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The Plea of Presbytery
Author: Presbyterian Church in Ireland. Synod of UlsterPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Plea of Presbytery
Author: Presbyterian Church in Ireland. Synod of UlsterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Plea of Presbytery
Author: The Plea of Presbytery in Behalf of the Oridination, Government, Discipline, and Worship of the Christian Church, as Opposed to the Unscriptural Character and Claims of Prelacy
Author: The Irish Presbyterian Mind
Author: Andrew R. HolmesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192512226
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Irish Presbyterian Mind considers how one protestant community responded to the challenges posed to traditional understandings of Christian faith between 1830 and 1930. Andrew R. Holmes examines the attitudes of the leaders of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland to biblical criticism, modern historical method, evolutionary science, and liberal forms of protestant theology. He explores how they reacted to developments in other Christian traditions, including the so-called 'Romeward' trend in the established Churches of England and Ireland and the 'Romanisation' of Catholicism. Was their response distinctively Presbyterian and Irish? How was it shaped by Presbyterian values, intellectual first principles, international denominational networks, identity politics, the expansion of higher education, and relations with other Christian denominations? The story begins in the 1830s when evangelicalism came to dominate mainstream Presbyterianism, the largest protestant denomination in present-day Northern Ireland. It ends in the 1920s with the exoneration of J. E. Davey, a professor in the Presbyterian College, Belfast, who was tried for heresy on accusations of being a 'modernist'. Within this timeframe, Holmes describes the formation and maintenance of a religiously-conservative intellectual community. At the heart of the interpretation is the interplay between the Reformed theology of the Westminster Confession of Faith and a commitment to common evangelical principles and religious experience that drew protestants together from various denominations. The definition of conservative within the Presbyterian Church in Ireland moved between these two poles and could take on different forms depending on time, geography, social class, and whether the individual was a minister or a member of the laity.