The practice of confessional subscription /
edited by David W. Hall.
- 2nd ed.
- Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Covenant Foundation, c2001.
- 339 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-333) and index.
On the hermeneutics of subscription / Biblical and pastoral basis for creeds and confession / Confessional subscription among the sixteenth century reformers / Subscription in the Dutch Reformed tradition / Owning the confession: subscription in the Scottish Presbyterian tradition / The context for the Adopting Act / The constitutional history the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America / Subscription to the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms / The Samuel Hemphill heresy case (1735) and the historic method of subscribing to the Westminster standards / The doctrinal contents of the Confession / The case for full subscription / A peaceable plea about subscription: toward avoiding future division / "Honest subscription": old Princeton Seminary and subscription the Westminster standards / Creed subscription in the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. / Re-examining the re-examiners of the Adopting Act / The church's power: its relation to subscription / Confidence in our brethren: creedal subscription in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church / Practical benefits and dangers of subscription / David W. Hall -- Robert S. Rayburn -- Peter A. Lillback -- W. Robert Godfrey -- J. Ligon Duncan III -- Luder G. Whitlock, Jr. -- Charles Hodge -- George W. Knight III -- William S. Barker -- Robert L. Dabney -- Morton H. Smith -- James E. Urish -- David B. Calhoun -- John Murray -- David W. Hall -- T. David Gordon -- John R. Meuther -- L. Roy Taylor. Introduction:
0965036758 9780965036757
Westminster Assembly (1643). Westminster Confession.
Westminster Confession of Faith.
Creeds--Subscription.
Presbyterian Church--Creeds.
Reformed Church--Creeds.
Christianity Creeds History
Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-333) and index.
On the hermeneutics of subscription / Biblical and pastoral basis for creeds and confession / Confessional subscription among the sixteenth century reformers / Subscription in the Dutch Reformed tradition / Owning the confession: subscription in the Scottish Presbyterian tradition / The context for the Adopting Act / The constitutional history the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America / Subscription to the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms / The Samuel Hemphill heresy case (1735) and the historic method of subscribing to the Westminster standards / The doctrinal contents of the Confession / The case for full subscription / A peaceable plea about subscription: toward avoiding future division / "Honest subscription": old Princeton Seminary and subscription the Westminster standards / Creed subscription in the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. / Re-examining the re-examiners of the Adopting Act / The church's power: its relation to subscription / Confidence in our brethren: creedal subscription in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church / Practical benefits and dangers of subscription / David W. Hall -- Robert S. Rayburn -- Peter A. Lillback -- W. Robert Godfrey -- J. Ligon Duncan III -- Luder G. Whitlock, Jr. -- Charles Hodge -- George W. Knight III -- William S. Barker -- Robert L. Dabney -- Morton H. Smith -- James E. Urish -- David B. Calhoun -- John Murray -- David W. Hall -- T. David Gordon -- John R. Meuther -- L. Roy Taylor. Introduction:
0965036758 9780965036757
Westminster Assembly (1643). Westminster Confession.
Westminster Confession of Faith.
Creeds--Subscription.
Presbyterian Church--Creeds.
Reformed Church--Creeds.
Christianity Creeds History