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I. The Broader Picture
A. The Contextual Landscape (1683-1859)
B. Higher Criticism Comes to America (1700s-1907)
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C. Darby & the Origin of Dispensationalism (1827-1845)
II. Centuries of Change
A. A Survey of 18th c. Presbyterianism
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B. The Second Great Awakening (1790-1840)
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Issue 45 (Vol. XIV, No. 1)
C. Charles Finney (1792-1875)
III. A Determined Unbelief (Part 1)
A. Evolution as Theory (1809-1882)
II. Centuries of Change (cont.)
D. A Survey of 19th c. Presbyterianism
IV. The Fire and Sword of Dispensationalism
A. Dispensationalism Comes to America (1862-1909)
B. Dispensationalism Spreads Rapidly (1876-1924)
Part 1
Part 2
C. The Scofield Bible
D. The Specifics of the Doctrines
E. Dispensationalism Infects Presbyterianism
V. The Fundamental Religion
A. The Rise of Fundamentalism (1865-1924)
B. Fundamentalism Becomes Militant (1914-1923)
III. A Determined Unbelief (continued)
B. Evolution as Theater – The Scopes Trial (1925)
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Issue 55 (Vol. XVI, No. 3)
VI. Modernism
A. From Princeton to Westminster (1923-1929)
B. The Crisis in Presbyterian Foreign Missions (1924-1935)
C. The Conservatives Divide While The Modernists Unite (1935-1937)
D. Reform from Within?
E. Postmodernism: Neo-Orthodoxy & Ecumenism (1919-1967)
III. A Determined Unbelief (conclusion)
C. Evolution as Propaganda – Inherit the Wind (1955, 1960)
VII. Recovering Lost Ground
A. From PCUS to PCA (1865-1973)
B. The “Split-Ps” and “The End of the Civil War”
C. A Return to Orthodoxy?
Appendix: Congregational Singing in the Presbyterian Tradition