Valleyofvision2023
Puritan Board Freshman
Good afternoon,
Can someone give me a list of books regarding Presbyterian history and how it came to be?
Can someone give me a list of books regarding Presbyterian history and how it came to be?
Looking for book on Presbyterian history
- Thread starter Valleyofvision2023
- Start date
- Status
B.L.
Puritan Board Sophomore
I just picked up a used copy of the volume listed below and it has been fascinating:
Presbyterians, A Popular Narrative of Their Origin, Progress, Doctrines, and Achievements
Author: Hays, Geo. P.; Hall, John (Introduction); Moore, William E. (Introduction)
Published: New York; J.A. Hill & Co., 1892
Presbyterians, A Popular Narrative of Their Origin, Progress, Doctrines, and Achievements
Author: Hays, Geo. P.; Hall, John (Introduction); Moore, William E. (Introduction)
Published: New York; J.A. Hill & Co., 1892
Presbyterians, a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements : Hays, Geo. P. (George Price), 1838-1897 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
archive.org
Valleyofvision2023
Puritan Board Freshman
Thanks! I’ll check it out.
HauerVos
Puritan Board Freshman
Reformed and Evangelical Across Four Centuries: The Presbyterian Story in America (2022) by Nathan P. Feldmeth, S. Donald Fortson III, Garth M. Rosell, & Kenneth J. Stewart.
Presbyterian & Reformed Churches: A Global History (2012) by James E. McGoldrick
The Oxford Handbook of Presbyterianism (2019) edited by Gary Scott Smith and P.C. Kemeny.
SolaScriptura
Puritanboard Brimstone
This one right here. (Posting link to Amazon, but you can obtain it from numerous vendors.)
This one here.
This one here.
Valleyofvision2023
Puritan Board Freshman
I also would love any suggestions on biographies of Martin Luther.
Thanks everyone for the suggestions!
Thanks everyone for the suggestions!
This looks great; a forward by George Marsden about clinches the deal for me.
I just looked this up on Google. Thanks. This gentleman, Hall, seems familiar. Is he known for other works?I just picked up a used copy of the volume listed below and it has been fascinating:
Presbyterians, A Popular Narrative of Their Origin, Progress, Doctrines, and Achievements
Author: Hays, Geo. P.; Hall, John (Introduction); Moore, William E. (Introduction)
Published: New York; J.A. Hill & Co., 1892
Presbyterians, a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements : Hays, Geo. P. (George Price), 1838-1897 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.archive.org
Thanks for the resources, y'all. I've been reading American Presbyterian history from the late colonial period through to about the 1860s.
@Valleyofvision2023 Re: Luther. Roland Bainton's work has been widely read for many decades. My professors in college kind of looked down on it, but it may have been because both he, and Luther, took the faith seriously. It's been many years since I've read it.
Last edited:
B.L.
Puritan Board Sophomore
I'm not overly familiar with the man; however, here are some other works he authored:
J.L. Allen
Puritan Board Sophomore
With regards to the first book by Feldmeth, et al., I'd recommend looking at these first to see where it does well and doesn't do so well.
The History of Presbyterianism and Evangelicalism
Donald Fortson and Kenneth Stewart speak about their book, Reformed and Evangelical across Four Centuries (Eerdmans), in which they tell the story of the Presbyterian church in the United States, beginning with its British foundations and extending to its present-day expression in multiple American
reformedforum.org
Ordained Servant October 2022: One More Time: If Presbyterians Are Evangelical, Why Aren’
Reformed & Evangelical Across Four Centuries: The Presbyterian Story in America, by Nathan P. Feldmeth, S. Donald Fortson, III, Garth M. Rosell, ...
www.opc.org
I recently read Presbyterian and Reformed Across Four Centuries and it was excellent in setting Presbyterianism in the context of the Reformation as well as English and Scottish contexts.
Valleyofvision2023
Puritan Board Freshman
Thank you everyone for the suggestions! I’m excited to read these books
By the way, one of the things you learn about Presbyterian history is that many men deserted Washington with the exception of a very large number of Sctottish and Scotch-Irish Presbyterians.
It lead to one of the Hessian officers to remark that it seemed like they were facing Presbyterians in battle in the Revolutionary War.
It lead to one of the Hessian officers to remark that it seemed like they were facing Presbyterians in battle in the Revolutionary War.
Phil D.
ὁ βαπτιστὴς
The Presbyterian Rebellion?
[Excerpt] In short, the American Revolution did have a “holy war” dynamic to it that pitted Anglicans against dissenters (who were generally referred to as Presbyterians), and in the minds of the loyalists, the war was fundamentally, at bottom, a Presbyterian rebellion. It is, without question, an accurate assessment of how King George III and his advocates perceived the American war. Whether that perception was entirely accurate may be another question, but the very fact that it was how they viewed it is an important dynamic that should not be overlooked as we chronicle America’s nativity narrative.
Charles Johnson
Puritan Board Junior
John Knox, History of the Reformation in Scotland. Not the easiest read, but an incredible book.
hammondjones
Puritan Board Junior
Prime Minister Horace Walpole: “Cousin America has run off with a Presbyterian parson!”
Of course as a southerner I'd be remiss not to mention Samuel Doak and the Overmountain Men.
Jerusalem Blade
Puritan Board Professor
How is the Gold Become Dim, by Morton Smith. Hard to find nowadays.
gpts.edu
How is the Gold Become Dim: The Decline of the Presbyterian Church in the United States as Reflected in its Assembly Actions (Morton H. Smith) - GPTS
An important piece of history in and of itself, How is the Gold Become Dim is also a dispassionate (but altogether damning) indictment of the PCUS in its apostate condition as early at 1973, when the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) was founded to preserve a continuing confessional...
gpts.edu
R
Request-Deleted member 11775
Guest
Story of the Scottish Church by M'Crie is excellent, but if you want something that goes back to the apostles, this is a nice but brief overview in the following chapters at this link:
The James Begg Society
Publishers of Protestant, Reformed Christian Literature
www.nesherchristianresources.org
Valleyofvision2023
Puritan Board Freshman
It sounds interesting!
- Status
