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Cover: First PCA General Assembly, December 4–7, 1973
Table of Content
2.Editorial
Articles
3.Obedient to the Great Commission: The Presbyterian Church in America at Fifty
By Zachary Groff
23.A Plea for Confessional Integrity in the PCA regarding the Second & Fourth Commandments
By Geoff Gleason
37.“Like a Box of Chocolates”: Experiencing PCA Worship
By Frank J. Smith
61.The History of the Formation of the Standing Judicial Commission
By Scott Cook
75.An Historical Study of Witnesses and their Oaths in the Courts of the Presbyterian Church in America
By Thomas E. Rickard
85.Morton Howison Smith: A Brief Sketch of His Life
By Joseph A. Pipa, Jr.
105.The Not-Quite Founding Father: J. Gresham Machen and the Origins of the PCA
Sean G. Morris
125.Machen’s Other Warrior Children: Conservative Presbyterians in the OPC & PCA
By D. G. Hart
135.Southern Presbyterian Ecumenism: The PCUS–RCA Merger Plan, Northern Reunion, and the Formation of the PCA
By Zachary M. Garris
151.Ecclesial Unity and Creation Doctrine
By William VanDoodewaard
163.God’s Not-So-Ordinary Providence: Evaluating the Framework Hypothesis “Because It Had Not Rained Argument” from Ordinary Providence
By Zachary Groff
181.William Perkins on Conscience and Casuistry: Puritan Foundations for Reformed, Scriptural Ethics
By Jacob D. Gerber
195.Recovering and Re-evaluating the Historical Interpretations of the Anti-Christ
By Ottavio Palombaro
203.We’ve Been Dating It All Wrong: Richard Denton (1603–1662) & the Arrival of American Presbyterianism
By Ryan Denton
209.The Doctrine of the Heavenly Intercession of Christ in the Writings of James Durham (1622–1668)
By Colin Dow
227.Who Was William Young? And What Did He Do for the Presbyterian Church
By Robert McInnes
243.James Durham: A New Biography, Part Two
By Chris Coldwell
261.Can a Christian Be an Objective Professional Historian? An Unorthodox Autobiographical Review Article of Ian Hugh Clary on Arnold Dallimore’s Historiography
By Ryan M. McGraw
Reviews & Responses: Nathan P. Feldmeth, S. Donald Fortson III, Garth M. Rosell, and Kenneth J. Stewart, Reformed and Evangelical across Four Centuries: The Presbyterian Story in America (Sean G. Morris) 271 ■ David W. Hall, Irony and the Presbyterian Church in America (Ryan Biese) 273 ■ Warfield’s Works, A Review & An Appreciation (Jeff A. Stivason) 274 ■ Christopher Watkin, Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible’s Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture (Benjamin Shaw) 276 ■ Lyle D. Bierma, Font of Pardon and New Life: John Calvin and the Efficacy of Baptism (Ryan M. McGraw) 278 ■ Gregory David Soderberg, As Often As You Eat This Bread: Communion Frequency in English, Scottish, and Early American Churches (Ryan Speck) 279 ■ G. K. Beale, Union with the Resurrected Christ: Eschatological New Creation and New Testament Biblical Theology (Roland Matthews) 286 ■ Willem van Vlastuin, Catholic Today: A Reformed Conversation About Catholicity (Thomas Haviland-Pabst) 290 ■ Alasdair J. MacLeod, John Kennedy of Dingwall, 1819-1884: Evangelicalism in the Scottish Highlands (Lane Keister) 292 ■ Mark D. Liederbach and Evan Lenow, Ethics As Worship: The Pursuit of Moral Discipleship (Lane Keister) 294 ■ L. Michael Morales, Exodus Old and New: A Biblical Theology of Redemption (Zachary Groff) 296 ■
303Psallo: Psalm 83:1–18
305Antiquary: Did George Gillespie embellish his Notes recorded during the Westminster Assembly?
310Bibliography
325The Editors / Errata for Previous Issues
326In Memoriam: David C. Lachman (1939–2023): A Tribute
.In Brief: In Brief: James Durham on the Unlawfulness of Making Images (35–36) ■ In Brief: The Regulative Principle of Worship (60) ■ In Brief: A New Denomination (1,974 years old!) (120–124) ■ In Brief: Personal Remembrances of Dr. J. L. Girardeau from Two of His Students (134) ■ In Brief: In Fifty Years Another Division? (150) ■ In Brief: Division, The Great Enemy of Edification and Reformation. (180) ■ In Brief: The First Beast is Antichrist in his kingdom (202)) ■ In Brief: Calvin to Knox on Baptism (208) ■ In Brief: “Your Sins Do Not Surprise God” (226) ■ In Brief: “Save Our Sabbath” (242) ■ In Brief: The PCA and The Federal Vision (260) ■
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