September 17: Rev. Jonathan Dickinson
A Potential Schism Halted by a Compromise Initially there was no real problem with the written standards for the Presbyterian Church in America. Ministerial students were simply tested for their learning…
June 25: Warfield on Why Not to Revise the Confession
In the final years of the 19th-century, a push began in the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. to revise the Westminster Standards. That effort eventually won out in 1903, incorporating…
February 19: Cumberland/PCUSA Union (1904)
A Union based on Compromise of Doctrine The early twentieth century in the northern Presbyterian church was increasingly one of a battle over the Bible. Charles Briggs, of Union Theological…
January 25: What Do the Scriptures Principally Teach?
We return today to Leonard Van Horn's series on the Westminster Shorter Catechism. Today we come to Catechism Question 3. Instruction in the Westminster Standards. The Historic Standards of Presbyterian…
January 11: Van Horn on WSC Q. 2
Our plan this year is to visit each Lord's Day the studies on the Westminster Shorter Catechism prepared by the Rev. Leonard T. Van Horn. Rev. Van Horn was one…