TY - BOOK AU - Hall,David W. TI - The practice of confessional subscription SN - 0965036758 PY - 2001/// CY - Oak Ridge, Tenn. PB - Covenant Foundation KW - Westminster Assembly KW - (1643) KW - Westminster Confession KW - Westminster Confession of Faith KW - Creeds KW - Subscription KW - Presbyterian Church KW - Reformed Church KW - Christianity KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-333) and index; Introduction; On the hermeneutics of subscription; David W. Hall --; Biblical and pastoral basis for creeds and confession; Robert S. Rayburn --; Confessional subscription among the sixteenth century reformers; Peter A. Lillback --; Subscription in the Dutch Reformed tradition; W. Robert Godfrey --; Owning the confession: subscription in the Scottish Presbyterian tradition; J. Ligon Duncan III --; The context for the Adopting Act; Luder G. Whitlock, Jr. --; The constitutional history the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America; Charles Hodge --; Subscription to the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms; George W. Knight III --; The Samuel Hemphill heresy case (1735) and the historic method of subscribing to the Westminster standards; William S. Barker --; The doctrinal contents of the Confession; Robert L. Dabney --; The case for full subscription; Morton H. Smith --; A peaceable plea about subscription: toward avoiding future division; James E. Urish --; "Honest subscription": old Princeton Seminary and subscription the Westminster standards; David B. Calhoun --; Creed subscription in the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; John Murray --; Re-examining the re-examiners of the Adopting Act; David W. Hall --; The church's power: its relation to subscription; T. David Gordon --; Confidence in our brethren: creedal subscription in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church; John R. Meuther --; Practical benefits and dangers of subscription; L. Roy Taylor ER -