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Presbyterians and American Culture

A History

By: Bradley J. Longfield

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Presbyterians and American Culture

A History

By: Bradley J. Longfield

This book provides a history of Presbyterians in American culture from the early eighteenth to the late twentieth century. Longfield assesses both the theological and cultural development of American Presbyterianism, with particular focus on the mainline tradition that is expressed most prominently in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). He explores how Presbyterian churches--and individuals rooted in those churches--influenced and were influenced by the values, attitudes, perspectives, beliefs, and ideals assumed by Americans in the course of American history. The book will serve as an important introduction to Presbyterian history that will interest historians, students, and church leaders alike.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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066423156X

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9780664231569

The Presbyterian Controversy

Fundamentalists, Modernists, and Moderates

By: Bradley J. Longfield

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The Presbyterian Controversy

Fundamentalists, Modernists, and Moderates

By: Bradley J. Longfield

This extensive reference work, hailed by the Journal of Religion as "a book long needed by historians of American religion", offers "a unique contribution to this often-told story by providing an in-depth analysis of seven persons intimately involved in the controversy" (Theology Today). 13 halftone illustrations.

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Oxford University Press

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0195358716

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9780195358711

Process and Providence

The Evolution Question at Princeton, 1845-1929

By: Bradley J. Gundlach

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Process and Providence

The Evolution Question at Princeton, 1845-1929

By: Bradley J. Gundlach

Charles Hodge, James McCosh, B. B. Warfield -- these leading professors at Princeton College and Seminary in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are famous for their orthodox Protestant positions on the doctrine of evolution. In this book Bradley Gundlach explores the surprisingly positive embrace of developmental views by the whole community of thinkers at old Princeton, showing how they embraced the development not only of the cosmos and life-forms but also of Scripture and the history of doctrine, even as they defended their historic Christian creed. Decrying an intellectual world gone evolution-mad, the old Princetonians nevertheless welcomed evolution properly limited and explained. Rejecting historicism and Darwinism, they affirmed developmentalism and certain non-Darwinian evolutionary theories, finding process over time through the agency of second causes God s providential rule in the world -- both enlightening and polemically useful. They also took care to identify the pernicious causes and effects of antisupernatural evolutionisms. By the 1920s their nuanced distinctions, together with their advocacy of both biblical inerrancy and modern science, were overwhelmed by the brewing fundamentalist controversy. From the first American review of the pre-Darwinian Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation to the Scopes Trial and the forced reorganization of Princeton Seminary in 1929, Process and Providence reliably portrays the preeminent conservative Protestants in America as they defined, contested, and answered -- precisely and incisively -- the many facets of the evolution question.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802868983

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9780802868985

The Presbyterian Controversy

Fundamentalists, Modernists, and Moderates

By: Bradley J. Longfield

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The Presbyterian Controversy

Fundamentalists, Modernists, and Moderates

By: Bradley J. Longfield

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.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195086740

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Presbyterians and American Culture

Presbyterians and American Culture

The Presbyterian Controversy

The Presbyterian Controversy

Process and Providence

Process and Providence

The Presbyterian Controversy

The Presbyterian Controversy

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