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The Confessional Presbyterian Archive is a curated digital library dedicated to preserving and promoting the writings of 17th–20th century Presbyterian pastors, teachers, and leaders. Featuring thousands of searchable texts, biographies, and historical resources, the archive provides direct access to the primary-source materials of American Presbyterianism.

Jesus Christ Is Jehovah

Argues that Jesus is Jehovah of the Old Testament. Surveys New Testament usage (Paul, the Gospels, Acts) and patristic/Reformed tradition to show Christ is Yahweh.
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Presbyterian Pelagianism

Editorial urges the organized church to bear a clear corporate witness to the gospel, defending historic Calvinist teachings (original sin, grace) against modern Pelagian/Kantian revisions.
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The Quest of the Historical Jesus

Argues that ordinary historical methods can confirm the divine, incarnate Jesus, critiquing naturalistic reconstructions and adducing effects, monuments, institutions, and traditions as evidence.
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Review of Science and Religion, a Symposium

Argues Christianity is essentially supernatural; regeneration is required for the Christian life. Warns modernist/scientific reductionism undermines the gospel and Christian ethics.
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Is the Pulpit Forgetting God?

1931 Presbyterian critique urging 'Evangelical' retain its historic Protestant meaning—God's sovereign grace—and warning pulpits against humanism, the social gospel, and psychological religion.
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The Gospel of Jesus

Argues true Christianity is historic and factual: it centers on Christ's deity and atoning death, not a reduced ethical 'gospel of Jesus.' A defense of orthodox belief.
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The Self-Affirmation of Jesus

Editorial calls Christians to witness for Christ, rebutting naturalism and modernism and affirming Jesus' divine person, messiahship and lordship while urging evangelism.
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The Theology of Karl Barth a Protest and a Standpoint

Surveys forty years of New Testament scholarship—textual criticism and Gospel dating—and critiques Karl Barth's theology, emphasizing divine revelation, anti‑historicism, and anti‑subjectivism.
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The Columbia Tradition

Columbia Seminary bulletin defends the school's Southern Presbyterian (Columbia) tradition amid its removal to Atlanta, urging friends to preserve doctrine and pray (Isaiah 40:31).
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Review of Paul Van Dyke, Ignatius Loyola

Obituary for Henry A. White and a review of Paul Van Dyke's Ignatius Loyola—praised for sympathetic, source-based research and portrayal, though some judgments are disputed.
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Harold McAfee Robinson

Memorial tributes to Dr. J. Ross Stevenson and Rev. Harold McAfee Robinson, recounting their leadership, ministry, and long service to Princeton Theological Seminary and the Presbyterian Church.

The Secularization of Education in America

Argues U.S. education has become secular—organized apart from God—and insists the Christian doctrine of human worth undergirds democracy and universal education, urging a church response.
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The Charge to the Professor

Inaugural address urging a New Testament–centered apologetic and vigorous Christian education. Calls pastors and teachers to patience, persistent labor, faith and prayer.
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How to Conduct Family Worship

Guide to family worship: reasons, acts (Scripture, prayer, song), and practical principles. Emphasizes brief, varied, social devotions adapted for children.
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The Church as a Teaching Institution

Manual for teacher training covering church history and religious education. Emphasizes the Church's spiritual mission, the Great Commission, and Sunday-school organization.
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David Livingstone

Memorial essay on David Livingstone: a missionary-explorer whose Christ-driven zeal opened Africa to missions, exposed the slave trade, and combined scientific work with devout piety.
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The Text of Luke XXII:17–25

Analysis of Luke 22:17-25 textual variants affecting the Lord's Supper, weighing Western vs other manuscripts and implications for miracles, history, and apologetic method.
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