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"No doubt can exist in the mind of a judicious Christian, but that the Sacred Scriptures comprise the most complete development of the entire system of our holy religion. But the extent and variety of information which they embrace, the loose and narrative style in which a great portion of them is written, and the picturesque and poetic imagery in which others are clothed, have presented an occasion both to ingenious and to feeble minded men, to build upon them a multitude of contending opinions, each supported by detached expressions collected from these divine oracles, or by interpretations, either plausible or forced, imposed upon their language. Divines, in order to correct or restrain this ambiguous diversity of sentiment, have endeavoured to reduce the whole of the doctrines of the sacred writings to certain definite principles, arranged in scientific order, so as mutually to illustrate and support one another. This would have been a scheme sufficiently rational, if system writers had confined their object to digesting the diffusive and expanded phraseology of the scriptures into a few simple and connected propositions, intended to present the substance of the whole to the mind, under one view. But their design has become so mingled with the discordant theories of different writers, that their extended discussions on each topic, have often destroyed the simplicity of the gospel, and led their readers, as well as disposed the writers themselves, to substitute human reason for the word of God. Instead of presenting a brief analysis of the doctrines contained in the Bible, they have too frequently attempted to make their respective explanations of the system of divine truth an entire library of theological science: It has occurred to the author that it would be desirable to students in that sphere of knowledge, to have its principal subjects distinctly pointed out, and clearly illustrated, in a short compass, in order to direct their future inquiries, and so to guard their future addresses from the pulpit, from blending discordant opinions; that they should, in no point, err against the general system of evangelic truth. He further hoped that such a compendious view might usefully aid the private Christian, in examining the sacred scriptures, and pursuing throughout the whole, the connected thread of Christian doctrine. It is his earnest prayer that the following pages may contribute in any degree to elucidate the doctrines of the holy scriptures, not to the learned only, but to the humblest Christian, for which, being freed, as much as possible, from all metaphysical discussion, he hopes they will be found to be usefully adapted"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved).

Theology, Doctrinal. --- Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A --- Doctrines.

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Includes section "Reviews of recent literature."

Theology --- Presbyterian Church --- Presbyterian Church. --- Theology. --- Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A --- Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.

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Presbyterian Church --- Presbyterians --- Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. --- Richmond (Va.) --- United States. --- Virginia. --- Virginia

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This study examines the lives and thought of six major figures involved in the bitter controversy between fundamentalists and modernists that wracked the American Presbyterian Church in the 1920s and 1930s.

Modernist-fundamentalist controversy. --- Presbyterian Church -- United States -- History -- 20th century. --- Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. -- History -- 20th century. --- Presbyterian Church --- History --- Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. --- Christian sects --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Fundamentalism --- Modernism (Christian theology) --- Presbyterian Church in the USA --- Presbyterian Church in the United States of America --- Presbyterian Church in the United States --- Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (New School) --- Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Old School) --- Cumberland Presbyterian Church --- American Home Missionary Society --- Calvinistic Methodist Church in the U.S.A. --- Synod of New York and Philadelphia (1758-1788) --- United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. --- Presbyterian Church of America

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A magnet for controversy, the media, and followers, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr. was the premier voice of northern religious liberalism for more than a quarter-century, and a worthy heir to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. From his pulpits at Yale University and, later, New York City's Riverside Church, Coffin focused national attention on civil rights, the anti-Vietnam War movement, disarmament, and gay rights. This revealing biography-based on unparalleled access to family papers and candid interviews with Coffin, his colleagues, family, friends, lovers, and wives-tells for the first time the remarkable story of Coffin's life. An army and CIA veteran before assuming the post of Yale University chaplain at the youthful age of 33, Coffin gained notoriety as a leader of a dangerous civil rights Freedom Ride in 1961, as a defendant in the "Boston Five" trial of draft resisters in 1969, and as the preeminent voice of liberal religious dissent into the 1980's. This book encompasses Coffin's turbulent private life as well as his flamboyant, joyful public career, while dramatically illuminating the larger social movements that consumed his days and defined his times.

Political activists --- Coffin, William Sloane. --- Coffin, William Sloane --- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) --- United Church of Christ --- General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches of the United States --- Evangelical and Reformed Church --- U.C.C. --- UCC --- United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. --- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. --- Presbyterian Church (USA) --- Iglesia Presbiteriana (U.S.A.) --- PC(USA) --- PCUSA --- Clergy