July 3: Bolters Reply to Presbytery
Today's post provides a good example of press coverage of the modernist controversy during the 1930s. On July 3d, 1936, the following news item appeared in the Wilmington, Delaware newspaper.…
June 29: Remember What It Cost
Keeping in mind that newspapers were little different then than now, subject to the same human foibles*, nonetheless the following coverage of the modernist controversy and the resulting denominational split…
June 21: Dr. Leland’s Charge, Part 2
In keeping with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America, which began meeting this past Tuesday, and will have concluded either late on Thursday, or not later than…
June 19: Death of Charles Hodge
Charles Hodge enters into eternity Early in July of 1878, on the pages of The Christian Observer, this brief note appeared under the title, “Calvinism and Piety,” : The Christian…
June 18: Rev. Dr. Leland’s Charge, Part 1
In keeping with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America, which meets beginning this Tuesday evening, the following charge brought at the ordination of a young minister, seems…