Reformed Faith and Theology

Image from: https://calvinisedpipe.wordpress.com Turning Points in American Presbyterian History D. G. Hart and John R. Muether This series of articles appeared in New Horizons in 2005-06. Download entire series as an eBook:  ePub    Mobi Index of Articles Turning Points in American Presbyterian History Origins and Identity, 1706-1729 Old Side versus New Side, 1741-1758 A National Presbyterian Church, 1789 The Plan of Union, 1801 Old School Presbyterianism, 1838 The Reunion of 1869 Confessional Revision in 1903 The Special Commission of 1925 1936: A Continuing Presbyterian Church The Confession of 1967 1973: The Presbyterian Church in America Presbyterian Reunion in 1983 Conclusion: Without Illusions Source From:  The Orthodox Presbyterian Church

AN INAUGURAL ORATION, DELIVERED AT FRANEKER, APRIL 16, 1675. BY HERMAN WITSIUS, S.S.T.P., D.D. Translated by the REV. JOHN DONALDSON, MINISTER OF THE FREE CHURCH, CERES. WITH A PREFATORY NOTE BY THE REV. WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM, D.D., PRINCIPAL OF THE NEW COLLEGE, EDINBURGH. EDINBURGH: JAMES WOOD, 88, PRINCES STREET. MDCCCLVI. ADVERTISEMENT OF the minor writings of Witsius, with the exception, perhaps, of his “Dissertation on the Efficacy of Baptism in the case of Infants,” none have been more highly valued, or more frequently commended to the attention of theological students, than his “Inaugural Oration on the Character of the True Divine.” Translations of a few of its more pregnant paragraphs, or rather sentences, have been given by the Rev. Charles Bridges, in his excellent work on the Christian Ministry, and by the late Rev. Edward Bickersteth, in his modest but most useful work, “The Christian Student;” but it is believed no complete English version of it ha

Johannes Gerhard  (17 October 1582 – 17 August 1637) was a  Lutheran  church leader and  Lutheran Scholastic  theologian during the  period of Orthodoxy . Contents 1  Biography 2  Writings 3  Works 4  Translations 5  Literature 6  Notes 7  References 8  External links Biography He was born in the German city of  Quedlinburg . At the age of fourteen, during a dangerous illness, he came under the personal influence of  Johann Arndt , author of  Das wahre Christenthum , and resolved to study for the church. He entered the  University of Wittenberg  in 1599, and studied  philosophy  and theology. A relative then persuaded him to change his subject, and he studied medicine for two years. In 1603, he resumed his theological reading at  Jena , and in the following year received a new impulse from  J.W. Winckelmann  and  Balthasar Mentzer  at Marburg. He graduated in 1605 and began to give lectures at Jena, then in 1606 he accepted the invitation of  John Cas