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  • Philosophy and the Contemporary World

    Mercersburg, Culture, and the Church

    Series Book 11 - Mercersburg Theology Study Series
    These essays by John Nevin, theologian of Mercersburg Theology, are united by two primary themes: Part 1 documents Nevin's noteworthy and innovative application of idealist philosophy to Reformed theology in antebellum America. American Christians largely rejected any inherited philosophical discipline or categories, claiming the right to invent moral and religious reality without attention to ... Read more

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  • The Early Creeds

    The Mercersburg Theologians Appropriate the Creedal Heritage

    Series Book 8 - Mercersburg Theology Study Series
    This volume is a collection of essays on the early creeds by John Nevin and Philip Schaff, the two principal representatives of the Mercersburg Theology that was birthed in nineteenth-century Pennsylvania. It also contains a critical response by John Proudfit, a more traditionally scholastic Calvinist. In these essays Nevin and Schaff argued that the early creeds provide an indispensable lens ... Read more

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  • The Mystical Presence

    And The Doctrine of the Reformed Church on the Lord's Supper

    Series Book 1 - Mercersburg Theology Study Series
    The Mystical Presence (1846), John Williamson Nevin's magnum opus, was an attempt to combat the sectarianism and subjectivism of nineteenth-century American religion by recovering the robust sacramental and incarnational theology of the Protestant Reformation, enriched with the categories of German idealism. In it, he makes the historical case for the spiritual real presence as the authentic ... Read more

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  • The Incarnate Word

    Selected Writings on Christology

    Series Book 4 - Mercersburg Theology Study Series
    The Incarnate Word contains a selection of the key writings on the doctrines of Christology produced by the theologians of Mercersburg Seminary during the middle of the nineteenth century. Despite the seminary's small stature and marginal position within American religious life, these texts represent some of the most profound wrestlings with the doctrine of the person of Christ that appeared in ... Read more

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  • Born of Water and the Spirit

    Essays on the Sacraments and Christian Formation

    Series Book 6 - Mercersburg Theology Study Series
    Born of Water and the Spirit presents essays on the sacraments by the three major representatives of "Mercersburg Theology," John Nevin, Philip Schaff, and Emanuel Gerhart. It focuses on Mercersburg's doctrine of baptism and Christian nurture, attempts to correct putative deficiencies of the major Reformed trajectories (e.g., New England and Princeton), and vigorously critiques the anti ... Read more

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  • One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic, Tome 1

    John Nevin’s Writings on Ecclesiology (1844–1849)

    Series Book 5 - Mercersburg Theology Study Series
    The mid-nineteenth century is a gold mine for contemporary scholars interested in American Protestant ecclesiology. There one will find the extensive writings of John Nevin who came to the notice of the theological world with The Anxious Bench, a critique of the "quackery" of Protestant revivalism. Influenced by a critical appropriation of cutting-edge contemporary German theology, he came to ... Read more

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  • One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic, Tome 2

    John Nevin’s Writings on Ecclesiology (1851–1858)

    Series Book 7 - Mercersburg Theology Study Series
    John Nevin's vision of the church as "one, holy, catholic, and apostolic" grew out of his critique of the revivalism and sectarianism that prevailed throughout evangelical Christianity in the nineteenth century. He deepens his perception of catholicity as an expression of Christian wholeness, his response to the parochialism that ruled American religion and life. He grounds congregational life and ... Read more

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  • History and Genius of the Heidelberg Catechism

    The HEIDELBERG CATECHISM; first appeared in the year 1563, and soon won for itself a sort of universal authority in the Church, that no similar system has since been able to supplant. Its relation to the Reformed Church was soon allowed to be parallel, in this respect, with that of the venerable Catechism of Luther to the Lutheran Church; a distinction not admitted before, in favor even of the ... Read more

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  • Retrieving Catholicity in American Protestantism

    Essays in Church History

    Series Book 12 - Mercersburg Theology Study Series
    This volume is a collection of essays on church history by John Williamson Nevin (1803-86), the theological creator of Mercersburg Theology. Nevin and his colleague Philip Schaff were attempting to reorient American ecclesial thought to be more historical. Most American theologians of the period posited a period of spiritual decline soon after the New Testament, lasting until the Protestant ... Read more

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  • The Mystical Presence

    A Vindication of the Reformed or Calvinistic Doctrine of the Holy Eucharist

    The following work has grown directly out of some controversy which has had place, during the past year, in the German Reformed Church, on the subject to which it relates. This stands related to it, however, only as an external occasion, and has not been permitted to come into view, in any way, in the work itself.It is not felt that any apology is needed for the publication.—This is found in the ... Read more

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  • The Heidelberg Catechism

    The Mercersburg Understanding of the German Reformed Tradition

    Series Book 10 - Mercersburg Theology Study Series
    This volume is a collection of essays on the Heidelberg Catechism by John Nevin, a principal representative of the Mercersburg Theology that was birthed in nineteenth-century Pennsylvania. It also contains a critical response by John Proudfit, a more traditionally scholastic Calvinist. In these essays Nevin argued that the Heidelberg Catechism is an essential irenic confessional document that ... Read more

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  • The Anxious Bench

    It is proposed to institute a free inquiry into the merits of the ANXIOUS BENCH, as it has been enlisted extensively of late years in the service of religion. My object will be to show, that the measure is adapted to obstruct rather than to promote the progress of true godliness, and that it deserves to be discouraged on this account.No one needs to be informed what is meant by the Anxious Bench. ... Read more

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