Archive for the ‘Church History’ Category

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The Westminster Assembly

The Christ the Center panel was joined by Dr. Chad Van Dixhoorn, associate pastor of Grace OPC in Vienna, VA and senior research fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, …

Presbyterian Family Tree

Presbyterian and Reformed Family Trees

Darryl G. Hart speaks about the storied histories of the Presbyterian and Reformed churches.

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Assessing Machen

Darryl G. Hart concludes his series on J. Gresham Machen with a lesson on assessing this great figure in American Presbyterianism.

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Medieval Trinitarian Thought from Aquinas to Ockham

James Dolezal reviews a new book from Russell L. Friedman, Medieval Trinitarian Thought from Aquinas to Ockham.

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The Basis on Which Machen Fought: The Bible

Darryl Hart discusses more about early 20th century liberalism and Machen’s fight for the history of Scripture and the importance of the doctrine contained therein.

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The Fight Against Sentimentality

Machen deals with Charles Erdman and Robert Speer in the fight against sentimentality.  Dr. Darryl G. Hart taught this lesson at Calvary Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Glenside, PA where he …

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The Fight Against Liberalism: Foreign Missions

Darryl Hart continues his series on J. Gresham Machen looking at Machen and the Independent Board of Presbyterian Foreign Missions.  The independent board was created as a reaction to the …

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Das Machen des Van Til

Or roughly, “The Making of Van Til.”  Camden Bucey builds a case that Machen is the principal historical reason for Cornelius Van Til becoming the influential reformed apologist he became.

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The Fight Against False Optimism

In this lesson, Dr. Hart touches upon Harry Emerson Fosdick, the ordination of liberals, the five fundamentals and the Auburn Affirmation.

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Liberalism, the Different Religion

In 1923, J. Gresham Machen published Christianity and Liberalism.  In the book Machen argued that liberalism was not another form of Christianity, but indeed was a different religion.  Darryl G. …