COMMENTARY :
F.P. Ramsay, Exposition of the Book of Church Order (1898, p. 184), on IV-5:
160.--V. Deposition is the degradation of an officer from his office, and may or may not be accompanied with the infliction of other censure.
Courts should be careful not to suspend indefinitely from office unless in cases in which deposition should follow if there is not repentance.
The Historical Development of the PCA Book of Church Order
Chapter 30 : Church Censures
Paragraph 5 : Of Deposition
30-5. Deposition is the degradation of an officer from his office, and may or may not be accompanied with the infliction of other censure.
[Historical Summary : The current PCA text remains unchanged from that of the PCUS 1867 draft edition.]
Background and Comparison :
1. PCA 1973, RoD, 4-5, Adopted text, as printed in the Minutes of General Assembly, p. 146
2. Continuing Presbyterian Church 1973, RoD, 4-5, Proposed text, p. 41
3. PCUS 1933, RoD, IV, §181
4. PCUS 1925, RoD, IV, §181
5. PCUS 1879, Rules of Discipline, IV-5
6. PCUS 1869 draft, Canons of Discipline, IV-5
7. PCUS 1867 draft, Canons of Discipline, IV-5
Deposition is the degradation of an officer from his office, and may or may not be accompanied with the infliction of other censure.
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