The Presbyterian experience in the United States : a sourcebook / edited by William Yoo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yoo, William, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Presbyterian Church--United States--History--Sources.

Presbyterian Church.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

x, 181 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Kentucky : Westminster John Knox Press, [2017]

Contents:

1. Contestations over confessional subscription. "A sermon preached at the opening of the Synod at Philadelphia," 1722 / Jonathan Dickinson

An overture presented to the Reverend Synod of Dissenting Ministers, 1729 / John Thomson

Adopting Act, 1729 / Synod of Philadelphia

2. Revivals, dissensions, and the First Great Awakening. "The danger of an unconverted ministry," 1740 / Gilbert Tennent

"An impartial trial of the spirit operating in this part of the world," 1741 / John Caldwell

A short and faithful narrative of a remarkable revival of religion in the congregation of New-Londonderry and other parts of Pennsylvania, 1744 / Samuel Blair

3. The Reformed shape of Presbyterian worship. "The true believer's all secured," 1747 / David McGregore

"Infant baptism from heaven," 1765 / Jonathan Parsons

"The duty of Christians, in singing the praise of God, explained," 1790 / John Black

"Self-dedication; or solemn covenant with God," 1822 / Harriet Myer Laird

4. Distinctive elements of Presbyterianism: polity, proclamation, and predestination. A sermon preached at the ordination of Samson Occom, 1759 / Samuel Buell

"A sermon at the execution of Moses Paul, an Indian," 1772 / Samuel Occom

An essay on the warrant, nature, and duties of the office of the ruling elder, in the Presbyterian Church, 1831 / Samuel Miller

A tract on the doctrines of election and reprobation, 1840 / James Henley Thornwell

5. The problem of slavery, the division of the church, and the Civil War. A speech to the New York State Anti-Slavery Society, 1837 / Theodore S. Wright

An inquiry into the scriptural views of slavery, 1846 / Albert Barnes

The Christian doctrine of slavery, 1857 / George D. Armstrong

"The general assembly," 1865 / Charles Hodge

6. The rising tides and crashing waves of theological controversy. "The public preaching of women," 1879 / Robert Lewis Dabney

Shall woman preach? or the question answered, 1891 / Louisa M. Woosley

"Inspiration," 1881 / Archibald A. Hodge and Benjamin B. Warfield

"The authority of holy scripture," 1891 / Charles Augustus Briggs

7. Emerging understandings of mission and ministry at the turn of the twentieth century. An address at the World's Parliament of Religions, 1893 / John Henry Barrows

"The burden of the educated colored woman," 1899 / Lucy Craft Laney

The foreign missionary: an incarnation of a world movement, 1907 / Arthur Judson Brown

The call of the new day to the old church, 1915 / Charles Stelzle

"Liberalism or Christianity?," 1922 / J. Gresham Machen

8. Denominational reunions, divisions, and differing ecclesial emphases. "In unity-for mission: a message to all congregations from the Uniting General Assembly of The United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America," 1958

"A message to all churches of Jesus Christ throughout the world from the General Assembly of the National Presbyterian Church," 1973

"The open door," 1965 / Eugene Carson Blake and Martin Niemöller

The centrality of the gospel, 2000 / Timothy Keller

9. Increasing racial, ethnic, and global diversities in church leadership. "Hispanic-Americans and the crisis in the nation," 1969 / Jorge Lara-Braud

"Blackness as sign and assignment," 1977 / Gayraud S. Wilmore

"From the kitchen to the pulpit: a Korean woman pastor's journey," 2006 / Choi. Moon Young

"A global Presbyterian witness for a global world community," 2006 / Fahed Abu-Akel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Presbyterian experience in the United States

ISBN:

9780664262143

0664262147

OCLC:

978288484