The Practice of Confessional Subscription.

by David W. Hall (Editor)

Paperback, 1997

Call number

BX9183 .P68 2001

Publication

Oak Ridge, TN: The Covenant Foundation.

Physical description

339 p.; 23 cm

Notes

Preface.
1. Introduction: On the Hermeneutics of Subscription, by David W. Hall.
2. Biblical and Pastoral Basis for Creeds and Confessions, by Robert S. Rayburn.
3. Confessional Subscription Among the Sixteenth Century Reformers, by Peter A. Lillback.
4. Subscription in the Dutch Reformed Tradition, by W. Robert Godfrey.
5. Owning The Confession: Subscription in the Scottish Presbyterian Tradition, by J. Ligon Duncan, III.
6. The Context for the Adopting Act, by Luder G. Whitlock, Jr.
7. The Constitutional History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, by Charles Hodge.
8. Subscription to the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms, by George W. Knight, III.
9. The Samuel Hemphill Heresy Case (1735) and the Historic Method of Subscribing to the Westminster Standards, by William S. Barker, II.
10. The Doctrinal Contents of the Confession, by Robert L. Dabney.
11. The Case for Full Subscription, by Morton H. Smith.
12. A Peaceable Plea About Subscription: Toward Avoiding Future Divisions, by James E. Urish.
13. "Honest Subscription": Old Princeton Seminary and Subscription to the Westminster Standards, by David B. Calhoun.
14. Creed Subscription in the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., by John Murray.
15. Re-examining the Re-examiners of the Adopting Act, by David W. Hall.
16. The Church's Power: Its Relation to the Subscription, by T. David Gordon.
17. Confidence in Our Brethren: Creedal Subscription in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, by John R. Muether.
18. Practical Benefits and Dangers of Subscription, by L. Roy Taylor.
19. Bibliography, by James E. Urish and David W. Hall [pp. 323-333].
Index
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