This text identifies the indigenous roots of American liberal theology and uncovers a wider, longer-running tradition than has been thought. Taking a narrative approach the text provides a biographical reading of important religious thinkers of the time.
"Prior series" comprised of the original handwritten index for Sept. 18, 1851/Aug. 31,1858 (reproduced in facsimile) and the newly prepared index for Sept. 1858-Dec. 1912.
"Prior series" comprised of the original handwritten index for Sept. 18, 1851/Aug.31,1858 (reproduced in facsimile) and the newly prepared index for Sept. 1858-Dec. 1912.
Edwin Rian left his doctoral studies in German to help found Westminster Seminary where he served as President of the Board of Trustees. The Presbyterian Conflict was the first historical account written of the struggle over doctrinal and ecclesiastical orthodoxy at Princeton Seminary in the early twentieth Century, culminating in the decision of many of its conservative faculty to resign and form a new seminary. It remains distinctly helpful and informative as a firsthand account of the man at its center, J. Gresham Machen.