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Christocentric Reformed Theology in Nineteenth-Century America

Key Writings of Emanuel V. Gerhart

By: Emanuel V. Gerhart

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Christocentric Reformed Theology in Nineteenth-Century America

Key Writings of Emanuel V. Gerhart

By: Emanuel V. Gerhart

Knowledge of the ideas of the theologian Emanuel V. Gerhart is essential for understanding nineteenth-century American theology. Gerhart was one of the first to introduce a complete systematic Christocentric theological system to Americans. His Institutes of the Christian Religion developed the ideas of European theologians and promoted the effort to systematize Mercersburg theology. Gerhart embraced German idealism rather than Scottish philosophy in his scholarship. As a mediating theologian, he attempted to reconcile historical Christianity with modern culture. His lectures, essays, and texts addressed the religious challenges and intellectual issues of his day from a Christocentric perspective. Together they were a major contribution to the Mercersburg Movement in particular and American theology in general from the antebellum period to the progressive era. His publications were devoted to a range of disciplines that included education, philosophy, and theology. This volume portrays Gerhart’s core theological ideas as found in his main texts and offers introductory commentaries and gives the historical background for his intellectual contributions.

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Christocentric Reformed Theology in Nineteenth-Century America

Key Writings of Emanuel V. Gerhart

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Key Writings of Emanuel V. Gerhart

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Knowledge of the ideas of the theologian Emanuel V. Gerhart is essential for understanding nineteenth-century American theology. Gerhart was one of the first to introduce a complete systematic Christocentric theological system to Americans. His Institutes of the Christian Religion developed the ideas of European theologians and promoted the effort to systematize Mercersburg theology. Gerhart embraced German idealism rather than Scottish philosophy in his scholarship. As a mediating theologian, he attempted to reconcile historical Christianity with modern culture. His lectures, essays, and texts addressed the religious challenges and intellectual issues of his day from a Christocentric perspective. Together they were a major contribution to the Mercersburg Movement in particular and American theology in general from the antebellum period to the progressive era. His publications were devoted to a range of disciplines that included education, philosophy, and theology. This volume portrays Gerhart's core theological ideas as found in his main texts and offers introductory commentaries and gives the historical background for his intellectual contributions.

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Born of Water and the Spirit

Essays on the Sacraments and Christian Formation

By: John Williamson Nevin,Philip Schaff,Emanuel V. Gerhart

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Born of Water and the Spirit

Essays on the Sacraments and Christian Formation

By: John Williamson Nevin,Philip Schaff,Emanuel V. Gerhart

Born of Water and the Spirit presents essays on the sacraments by the three major representatives of "Mercersburg Theology," John Nevin, Philip Schaff, and Emanuel Gerhart. It focuses on Mercersburg's doctrine of baptism and Christian nurture, attempts to correct putative deficiencies of the major Reformed trajectories (e.g., New England and Princeton), and vigorously critiques the anti-sacramental animus of revivalistic evangelicalism. Mercersburg understood baptism as initiating a person (adult or infant) into the sacramental life of the church. Baptism and Eucharist were objective, spiritually real actions that made (what Nevin called) the "mystical presence" of Jesus Christ present to Christians, bringing transformative power into their lives. The present critical edition carefully preserves the original texts, while providing extensive introductions, annotations, and bibliography to orient the modern reader and facilitate further scholarship. The Mercersburg Theology Study Series is an attempt to make available for the first time, in attractive, readable, and scholarly modern editions, the key writings of the nineteenth-century movement known as the Mercersburg Theology. An ambitious multiyear project, it aims to make an important contribution to the scholarly community and to the broader reading public, who can at last be properly introduced to this unique blend of American and European, Reformed and Catholic theology.

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Essays on the Sacraments and Christian Formation

By: John Williamson Nevin,Philip Schaff,Emanuel V. Gerhart

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Essays on the Sacraments and Christian Formation

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Christocentric Reformed Theology in Nineteenth-Century America

Christocentric Reformed Theology in Nineteenth-Century America

Christocentric Reformed Theology in Nineteenth-Century America

Christocentric Reformed Theology in Nineteenth-Century America

Born of Water and the Spirit

Born of Water and the Spirit

Born of Water and the Spirit

Born of Water and the Spirit

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