VI. PRESBYTERIANISM (People) Flashcards
Know brief description of role, or identifying work or text. Finally the candidate must match 20 people with their dates, their nationality, and an identifying role, event or text. He must then select 4 (at least a century apart) and briefly explain the significance of each for Presbyterianism.
Charles Hodge
- 1797-1878
- American
- President of Princeton Theological Seminary
- Orthodox Calvinist
- Authority of Word of God–Systematic Theology
The Old School, led by Charles Hodge of Princeton Theological Seminary,
John Knox
- 1513-1572
- Scottish
- Founder of Prebyetrian Church of Scotland and Scottish Prtoestant Reformation
- Developed Presbyterianism in First Book of Discipline
Thomas Cartwright
- 1535-1603
- English
- Father of English Presbyterianism and spoke against Episcopalianism as Professor of Cambridge
Harry Emerson Fosdick
- 1878-1969
- American baptist
- Instigated Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy by Shall the Fundamentalists Win?
- in 1922 (GA going to kick out but resigned)
Jack Williamson
- Died 2009
- First moderator of PCA GA
Andrew Melville
- 1545-1622
- Scottish
- Leader of GA post Knox
- adopted Second Book of Discipline to make Preby official.
Charles Augustus Briggs
- 1841-1913
- American Pres
- Hebrew Prof at Union Seminary
- excommunicated from PCUSA for liberal theology and higher criticism as heresy regarding Bible
Inuagural Address at Union incited controversy
Samuel Rutherford
- 1600-1661
- Scot
- commissioner of Westminster Assembly
Wrote Rex Lex, for which he was almost tried for high treason but died before. It attacked absolutism and emphasized the importance of covenant and law–a precursor to the social contract, which would become a conditioned obedience based upon rulers uphlding their agreement. Limited government and constitutionalism.
James H. Thornwell
- 1812-1862
- American Preby
- Leader of Old School in South (PCCS) and claimed slavery was morally right and justified.
Francis Makemie
- 1658-1708
- Irish–Irish-Scot–Ulster Presybterian tradition
- founder of Pres in USA
- Delmarva Church Planter
- established Rehobeth Presb Church, the oldest in America and first presby in Amefica,
- Presbytery of Philadelphia
Francis A. Schaeffer
- 1912-1984
- American
- presuppositional apologist in L’Abri Alps
William Tennent Sr.
- 1673-1746
- Scottish American
- founder of Log College, school of First Awakening
- Princeton University is regarded as the successor to the Log College
First presbyterian seminary in the Americas–started a legacy of amercian seminaries for presbyterians. Log College graduates supports the great awakening and new side
Samuel Davies
- 1723-1761
- American
- President of Princeton Uni after Edwards
- Contributed to Great Awakening
- break from Church of England
- Laid the ground work for religious tolerance and separation of church and state in Virginia. Because in Virginia the Church in England was the established church.
Benjamin Warfield
- 1851-1921
- last great Theo of Princeton before Westminster and defender of inerrancy
STrated controversy when refused to publihs Briggs in Prsbyetrian review
John Witherspoon
- 1723-1794
- Scot Amer
- First GA of PCUSA in 1789 signed Dec of Independence
Common sense realism that led to eventual downfall and movement to theisitic evolution in princeton–move Princeton from theological education to general education. Leader of establushing the PCUSA
Samuel Miller
- 1769-1850
- born in Dover
- one of the founding faculty of Princeton Seminary
- A church historian Influential in the division between new and old school
Archibald Alexander
- 1772-1851
- First Principal and founder of Princeton Theological Seminary
The major source of sound theology and doctrine for many years during the 17 and 1800s
The Old School, led by Charles Hodge of Princeton Theological Seminary,
Morton H. Smith
- 1923-2017
- first stated clerk of the PCA GA
John Holt Rice
- 1777-1831
- founder and first prof of Union Theological Seminary
Thomas Chalmers
- 1780-1847
- founder and moderator of Free Church of Scotland in response to state encroachment on Church of Scotland
Plan of Union (PCUS)
Tried to unite with liberal UPUSA in 1954. Failed but liberals snuck them in the back door by recieving. UPUSA had adopted neoorthodoxy and, and in 1973 the plan was later tried again and missing the escape clause letting the conservative churches out of the PCUS.
