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First Presbytery in America
NY Presbytery
1706
Francis Makemie
(1658-1708)

Scotch Irish father of American Presbyterianism.

First moderator of the Presbytery of Philadelphia

First Presbyterian General Assembly held in America

1788

Adopting Act 1792

A compromise document between strict and lax conscriptionists





Agreement in and approbation of the Confessions of Faith as being in all the essentials and necessary articles good forms of sound words and systems of Christian doctrine.

Johns Witherspoon

Scots-Irish Philosopher - common sense realism



Came to the colonies to head up Princeton



Signatory of the Declaration of Independence

Plan of Union

Proposed union of Congregationalists and Presbyterians for the Western Expansion



1801-1837

Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Broke off from PCUSA in 1810 and 1906

Second Cumberland Broke off in 1869

Modernist Controversy: Erosion of Presbyterian Church in 20th century due to

Liberalism Broadly


Darwinianism


Higher Criticism


Biblical Skepticism

Five necessary and essential doctrines adopted by General Assembly of 1910

Inerrancy /inspiration


Virgin Birth


Miracles of Christ


Bodily Resurrection


Substitutionary Atonement



Adopted and reaffirmed again in 1916 & 1923


Harry Fosdick

Preached the sermon Shall the Fundamentalists Win?




Major liberal figure in the Modernist movement

Auburn Affirmation

1924





Liberals urged tolerance and made the five essentials negotiable





General Assembly of 1926 nullified previous commitment to the five essentials of the 1910 GA

Reorganization of Princeton Seminary

1929



Denied Machen the chair of apologetics and ethics



Gave liberals control of the seminary

Westminster Seminary

Founded 1929 by Machen and seven other Princeton faculty when conservatives lost control of Princeton.

Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions

Formed by Machen in 1933 to channel money from conservative churches to evangelical mission efforts

Machen Defrocked

1935

PCA 1936

Machen and conservatives broke away from the PCUSA in 1936 and formed the PCA

Bible Presbyterian Church

Carl McIntyre split from the PCA 1936 over eschatology (staunchly pre-millennial) and abstinence from alcohol






Orthodox Presbyterian Church

Those staying with the PCA (Gresham Machen) after the McIntyre split renamed to OPC

Evangelical Presbyterian Church
a 1956 split from the Bible Presbyterian Church caused primarily due to Carl McIntire's heavy handed leadership

The new EPC controlled both Covenant College and Seminary


Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Synod

In 1965 The EPC merged with the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America General Synod to become the RPCES




The RPCES joined the PCA in 1982

Roots of Reformed Presbyterian Church North America General Synod
from the 2nd reformation in Scotland - they broke away from the Reformed Presbyterians over participation with civil magistrates.
Old Side / New Side
First Great Awakening 1730s - 1740s led to Old Side / New Side Controversy

1741 Split
1758 Rejoin
Old School / New School
Second Great Awakening 1800 - 1825 led to Old School New School Controversy

1837 Split
1869 Rejoin
PCUS
organized out of the main national body of Old School Presbyterianism PCUSA during the civil war in the United States.

also merged with the "new school" Presbyterian United Synod of the South in 1864

(the "new school" Presbyterians had split over slavery in 1857)

PCUS merged back with the PCUSA in 1983