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First Presbytery in America
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NY Presbytery
1706 |
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Francis Makemie
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(1658-1708)
Scotch Irish father of American Presbyterianism. First moderator of the Presbytery of Philadelphia |
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First Presbyterian General Assembly held in America |
1788 |
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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. |
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Johns Witherspoon |
Scots-Irish Philosopher - common sense realism
Came to the colonies to head up Princeton
Signatory of the Declaration of Independence |
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Plan of Union |
Proposed union of Congregationalists and Presbyterians for the Western Expansion
1801-1837 |
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Cumberland Presbyterian Church
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Broke off from PCUSA in 1810 and 1906
Second Cumberland Broke off in 1869 |
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Modernist Controversy: Erosion of Presbyterian Church in 20th century due to |
Liberalism Broadly Darwinianism Higher Criticism Biblical Skepticism |
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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
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Harry Fosdick |
Preached the sermon Shall the Fundamentalists Win? Major liberal figure in the Modernist movement |
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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 |
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Reorganization of Princeton Seminary |
1929
Denied Machen the chair of apologetics and ethics
Gave liberals control of the seminary |
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Westminster Seminary |
Founded 1929 by Machen and seven other Princeton faculty when conservatives lost control of Princeton. |
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Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions |
Formed by Machen in 1933 to channel money from conservative churches to evangelical mission efforts |
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Machen Defrocked |
1935 |
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PCA 1936 |
Machen and conservatives broke away from the PCUSA in 1936 and formed the PCA |
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Bible Presbyterian Church |
Carl McIntyre split from the PCA 1936 over eschatology (staunchly pre-millennial) and abstinence from alcohol
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Orthodox Presbyterian Church |
Those staying with the PCA (Gresham Machen) after the McIntyre split renamed to OPC |
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Evangelical Presbyterian Church
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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 |
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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 |
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Roots of Reformed Presbyterian Church North America General Synod
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from the 2nd reformation in Scotland - they broke away from the Reformed Presbyterians over participation with civil magistrates.
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Old Side / New Side
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First Great Awakening 1730s - 1740s led to Old Side / New Side Controversy
1741 Split 1758 Rejoin |
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Old School / New School
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Second Great Awakening 1800 - 1825 led to Old School New School Controversy
1837 Split 1869 Rejoin |
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PCUS
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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 |