Blogs Posts on "Presbyterianism"

Resourcing Elders by Per Crucem ad Lucem on Nov 3, 2009It’s not unusual for me to be contacted about reading resources, and typically it’s not too difficult to recommend some appropriate text(s). Today, I was asked what resources there are for elders serving in the Presbyterian/Reformed tradi...

On the writing of Reformed Confessions by Per Crucem ad Lucem on Oct 30, 2009In recent times, the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand has been engaged in drafting a contemporary, indigenous confession of faith – Kupu Whakapono – with a view to it being accepted as a new subordinate standard. (You can read more abo...

OPC, PCA, EPC, PCUSA: What's in a Name? by A Pilgrim's Redress on Oct 29, 2009Over at Of Trout and Men, my friend and mentor Dan Knox has a helpful little synopsis answering an inquiry concerning the difference between the different Presbyterian denominations of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC), the Evangelical Presbyte...

Reading Twentieth-Century Reformed & Presbyterian Thought by Per Crucem ad Lucem on Oct 15, 2009Some months back, I posted a list of suggested novels, plays and collections of poetry that I thought theology students and pastors ought to read, and in response received a number of excellent additional suggestions. Thanks heaps to those who offere...

The Revd Clarence Arthur Wilmot on Presbyterianism … and America by Per Crucem ad Lucem on Aug 11, 2009‘What all the genteel professors at Princeton Seminary had smilingly concealed, Warfield and Green and the erect, pedantic rest, and the embowering trees and Gothic buildings had in their gracious silence masked, was the possibility that this was a...

Religious Radicalism as a Factor of the American Revolution by Understand America on Mar 14, 2009Forty years after the beginning of the American Revolution, the two most famous theorists of the Revolution, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, exchanged opinions on how the American colonies could have thrown off British rule so completely, and then...