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Publication
Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, 1996.
Physical description
lii, 1096 p.; 24 cm
Notes
Note : The original or working title of this book was Rotten Wood : How the Liberals Captured the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. as stated in footnote 2 of the pamphlet Was Calvin a Theonomist?, by Gary North [see https://www.librarycat.org/lib/pcahc/item/206559490]. That original title is explained by the anecdote provided on the page facing page 1 of the book:
"ROTTEN WOOD"
Dr. Warfield's funeral took place yesterday afternoon at the First Church of Princeton. . . . It seemed to me that the old Princeton—a great institution it was—died when Dr. Warfield was carried out.
I am thankful for one last conversation I had with Dr. Warfield some weeks ago. He was quite himself that afternoon. And somehow I cannot believe that the faith which he represented will ever really die. In the course of the conversation I expressed my hope that to end the present intolerable condition there might be a great split in the Church, in order to separate the Christians from the anti-Christian propagandists. "No," he said, "you can't split rotten wood." His expectation seemed to be that the organized Church, dominated by naturalism, would become so cold and dead, that people would come to see that spiritual life could be found only outside of it, and that thus there might be a new beginning.
Nearly everything that I have done I have done with the inspiring hope that Dr. Warfield would think well of it.
—J. Gresham Machen (1921)*
* Letter to his mother (Feb. 19, 1921); cited in Ned B. Stonehouse, J. Gresham Machen: A Biographical Memoir Philadelphia: Westminster Theological Seminary, [1954], 1977, p. 310.
CONTENTS:
Part 1 : Orthodoxy and Its Discontents.
Introduction to Part 1.
1. Theologies in Conflict.
Conclusion to Part 1.
Part 2 : From Old School to New School.
Introduction to Part 2.
Whose Legitimacy?
2. Old School vs. New School.
Whose Authority?
3. Authority : Biblical, Confessional, Ecclesiastical.
4. Testing Orthodoxy's Will to Resist.
5. The Last Heresy Trials, 1891-1900.
Conclusion to Part 2.
Part 3 : From Evangelicalism to Liberalism.
Introduction to Part 3.
Whose Legality?
6. Shadow Government, Administrative Law.
Whose Sanctions?
7. Darwinism, Democracy, and the Public Schools.
8. The Revival of Rhetoric.
9. The Auburn Affirmation and Its Aftermath.
10. Princeton, Pensions, and Peace.
11. Conflict Over Foreign Missions.
Whose Inheritance?
12. Inheritance and Disinheritance.
Conclusion to Part 3.
Part 4 : The Strategy of Subversion.
Introduction to Part 4.
13. Theology, Strategy, Tactics.
14. Monopoly Returns and the Flow of Funds.
Conclusion to Part 4.
Conclusion.
Appendixes :
Appendix A : H.L. Mencken's Obituary.
Appendix B : How to Immunize Presbyterianism.
Appendix C : The Strange Legacy of the Westminster Assembly.
Appendix D : Francis Schaeffer's Role in the Presbyterian Conflict.
Appendix E : Winners and Losers.
"ROTTEN WOOD"
Dr. Warfield's funeral took place yesterday afternoon at the First Church of Princeton. . . . It seemed to me that the old Princeton—a great institution it was—died when Dr. Warfield was carried out.
I am thankful for one last conversation I had with Dr. Warfield some weeks ago. He was quite himself that afternoon. And somehow I cannot believe that the faith which he represented will ever really die. In the course of the conversation I expressed my hope that to end the present intolerable condition there might be a great split in the Church, in order to separate the Christians from the anti-Christian propagandists. "No," he said, "you can't split rotten wood." His expectation seemed to be that the organized Church, dominated by naturalism, would become so cold and dead, that people would come to see that spiritual life could be found only outside of it, and that thus there might be a new beginning.
Nearly everything that I have done I have done with the inspiring hope that Dr. Warfield would think well of it.
—J. Gresham Machen (1921)*
* Letter to his mother (Feb. 19, 1921); cited in Ned B. Stonehouse, J. Gresham Machen: A Biographical Memoir Philadelphia: Westminster Theological Seminary, [1954], 1977, p. 310.
CONTENTS:
Part 1 : Orthodoxy and Its Discontents.
Introduction to Part 1.
1. Theologies in Conflict.
Conclusion to Part 1.
Part 2 : From Old School to New School.
Introduction to Part 2.
Whose Legitimacy?
2. Old School vs. New School.
Whose Authority?
3. Authority : Biblical, Confessional, Ecclesiastical.
4. Testing Orthodoxy's Will to Resist.
5. The Last Heresy Trials, 1891-1900.
Conclusion to Part 2.
Part 3 : From Evangelicalism to Liberalism.
Introduction to Part 3.
Whose Legality?
6. Shadow Government, Administrative Law.
Whose Sanctions?
7. Darwinism, Democracy, and the Public Schools.
8. The Revival of Rhetoric.
9. The Auburn Affirmation and Its Aftermath.
10. Princeton, Pensions, and Peace.
11. Conflict Over Foreign Missions.
Whose Inheritance?
12. Inheritance and Disinheritance.
Conclusion to Part 3.
Part 4 : The Strategy of Subversion.
Introduction to Part 4.
13. Theology, Strategy, Tactics.
14. Monopoly Returns and the Flow of Funds.
Conclusion to Part 4.
Conclusion.
Appendixes :
Appendix A : H.L. Mencken's Obituary.
Appendix B : How to Immunize Presbyterianism.
Appendix C : The Strange Legacy of the Westminster Assembly.
Appendix D : Francis Schaeffer's Role in the Presbyterian Conflict.
Appendix E : Winners and Losers.
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