|
The History Behind
the
Reformed Presbyterian Church,
Evangelical Synod
by
George P. Hutchinson
|
This book has been long out
of print and difficult to find for many. We have secured permission from the author, Dr. Hutchinson, to now make this valuable work available in digital format.
To preserve the formatting of the original edition, all files are in Portable Document Format [pdf].
The text provided below will be periodically updated with hyperlinks to selected original sources
used by the author
in the preparation of this book. Links to these documents are being provided
in order to
enrich the usefulness of this
work for the reader. Click here for a log of added sources.
It is also our hope that the provision of this additional material will serve to demonstrate the place and
extreme value of having an archives such as the PCA Historical Center as an institution where the story of
conservative American Presbyterianism can be preserved.
If you would prefer to have files without the embedded hyperlinks, please write to the director at the PCA Historical Center.
A print-on-demand version is under consideration, and you may also register your interest in that product by email.
|
|
|
Bibliographic citation:
Hutchinson, George P., The History Behind the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod. Cherry Hill, NJ: Mack Publishing
Company, 1974. xxi, 448 p.; illustrations; 23 cm.]
|
| |
|
TABLE OF CONTENTS
|
|
Introduction by History of the Church
Committee |
ix |
|
|
Abbreviations |
xi |
|
|
Acknowledgements |
xiii |
|
|
Foreword by Paul Woolley |
xv |
|
|
Author's Preface |
xvii |
|
| 1. |
The Nature of Presbyterianism |
1 |
|
|
Historic Presbyterianism
One Infallible Authority
The Confession of Faith
Presbyterian Church Life
The Presbyterian Church
|
2
4
9
15
19
|
|
| 2. |
The Reformed Presbyterian Church in
America |
23 |
|
|
The Covenanted Reformation
The Reformed Presbyterian Conscience
Reformed Presbyterianism in America
Reformation Principles Exhibited
The Covenanter Church
|
24
29
39
48
59 |
|
| 3. |
The Reformed Presbyterian Church,
General Synod |
65 |
|
|
Optimism and Progress
Disruption and Recovery
Division and Decline
Change and Crisis
A Changed Church
|
66
70
82
95
103 |
|
| 4. |
The Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. |
109 |
|
|
Beginnings of Organization
Old Side -- New Side
The General Assembly
Old School -- New School
A Reunited Church
|
110
116
124
131
145 |
|
| 5. |
The Broadening Church in the U.S.A. |
153 |
|
|
Rise of Modernism
Reaction of Fundamentalism
The Princeton Tradition
Triumph of Indifferentism
The Broadened Church
|
154
163
175
183
191 |
|
| 6. |
The Presbyterian Separatist Movement |
195 |
|
|
Christianity and Liberalism
A New Reformation
A True Presbyterian Church
The Division of 1937
A Testifying Church
|
195
206
215
224
237 |
|
| 7. |
The Bible Presbyterian Church |
245 |
|
|
Bible Presbyterian Synod
Testimony of Separation
The Throes of Controversy
The Division of 1956
Conflict With Movementism
|
246
253
270
285
293 |
|
| 8. |
The Evangelical Presbyterian Church |
299 |
|
|
The Columbus Synod
Bible Presbyterian Agencies
Evangelical Presbyterian Concerns
An Evangelical Church
Evangelical Presbyterianism
|
300
306
315
332
345 |
|
| 9. |
The Reformed Presbyterian Church,
Evangelical Synod |
353 |
|
|
A New Beginning
A Fresh Start
Lookout Mountain Wedding
The Evangelical Synod
Reformed Presbyterianism
|
354
367
380
386
403 |
|
| 10. |
The Necessity for Consistent Christianity
|
409 |
|
|
A Noble Vision
Bible Presbyterianism
Calvinistic Evangelicalism
Building the Church
A Burning Love
|
410
415
421
427
434 |
|
|
Select Bibliography for Further Reading |
437 |
|
|
Index |
439 |
|
|
Photographs between pages 212 and
213. |
|
|
