---
title: 'Pastors, Theology, and the Age'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Francis Landey Patton, Sr.'
date: 1879-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Pastoral Theology'
- 'Theology'
- 'Confessional Standards'
scriptures:
- 'Psalms 19'
- 'Genesis 1'
- 'John 20'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/patton-1879-pastors-theology-and-the-age
---

# Pastors, Theology, and the Age

Affirms the dignity and necessity of theology and calls pastors to defend doctrine. Ministers must engage science and philosophy, uphold confessions, and resist heresies (perfectionism, Socinianism).

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