August 15: Old School Divides North & South
Ideas & Actions Have Consequences On this day, August 15th, in 1861, a group of pastors and ruling elders met in Atlanta to plan the division of a new denomination, splitting…
June 5: Old School/New School Division of the PCUSA
The Mother of All Schisms in Presbyterianism Old School Presbyterians . . . New School Presbyterians. You were either one or the other in the early to mid-nineteenth century in…
May 20: Old School/New School Reunion
Does Doctrine Divide While Mission Unites? This was the sentiment when the schism of 1837 between the Old School and New School Presbyterians was healed in the days following May 20,…
August 1: James Henley Thornwell
The Greatest Divine of the South When the great Southern theologian died on August 1, the South was winning her independence from the Union. But that was only one year into the…
June 5: The division of Old School/New School
A Parting of the Ways The Mother of All Schisms in Presbyterianism Old School Presbyterians . . . New School Presbyterians. You were either one or the other in the…