This section of our web site is intended to provide a topical guide to the Collections of the PCA Historical Center. As time permits, materials relevant to various issues and discussions within the Church will be gathered and posted. Some of these topics will include:
- Baptism
1. Report of the Study Committee on Validity of Previous Baptism [RPCES, 1981]
2. Baptism and Non-Communing Membership (PCA, 1977)
3. Appendix P: Report on the Validity of Certain Baptisms (PCA, 1987)
4. Appendices to the Report on the Validity of Certain Baptisms (PCUSA, Old School, 1845)
5. Minority Report, Ad Hoc Committee on the Validity of Certain Baptisms (PCA, 1987)
6. Baptism -- Click here to print articles 2 - 5 above as one file.
7. Don Dunkerley - Sermon on Baptism, delivered at the McIlwain Presbyterian Church, Pensacola, FL, 11/26/1972.
- Book of Church Order
1. Its Historical Development
- Creation
1. Creation Study Committee Report [HTML] [Click here to view the report as a pdf file]
- Paedocommunion [pdf format only]
1. Report of the Ad-Interim Committee to Study the Question of Paedocommunion, from the 16th General Assembly, 1988, Appendix T, p. 516f. Includes the Minority Report and the Bibliography presented to the 17th General Assembly, 1989. Papers listed in the Bibliography are available from the PCA Historical Center.
- Presbyterian Church History [bibliography]
- Racial Relations
1. 1800 - Alexander McLeod's stand against slavery
2. 1802 - Negro Slavery Unjustifiable, by Alexander McLeod [pdf document]
3. 1857 Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (New School) Decision against slavery [newsclipping ; jpg images]
4. 1964 Statement on Biblical Principles of Racial Discrimination from the Evangelical Presbyterian Church [1961-1965]
5. 1977 NAPARC Statement on Race Relations
6. 2002 PCA Declaration on Racial Reconciliation
- Roman Catholicism
1. 1995 Response to "Evangelicals and Catholics Together" [PCA Position Paper, Adobe PDF format only
- Subscription
1. Adopting Act of 1729, together with subsequent acts & deliverances
2. The Vow of Teaching and Ruling Elders, by the Rev. Dr. Samuel Miller [1769-1850] [html] [pdf]
3. Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield on efforts in the PCUSA to revise the Westminster Standards
4. "What is the "System of Doctrine?" by the Rev. Prof. Charles Hodge, D.D., LL.D. [1797-1878]
5. Address on the 200th Anniversary of the Adopting Act, by Frederick W. Loetscher, D.D., LL.D. [html] [pdf]
6. Special Committee Report on the Second Ordination Vow, from the RPCES Documents of Synod (1971)
7. Overture to Change the Second Ordination Vow, Documents of Synod (1972)
8. Overture to Amend BCO 21-4 to Specify Good Faith Subscription (PCA, 2002)
- Theonomy
1. Definition of Theonomy, from the 7th General Assembly (PCA), 1979, 7-49, III, 22, p. 115.
2. Constitutional Inquiry on WCF 19-4, from the 11th PCA General Assembly, 1983, Minutes, 11-36, III, 29, p. 96-97.
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