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Christian Salvation: Its Doctrine and Experience

Lectures on soteriology outlining the order of salvation: predestination, atonement, and vocation, emphasizing the Trinity's economic roles in a Calvinistic framework.
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In Memoriam: Robert Alexander Webb

Obituary for Robert A. Webb—Columbia Theological Seminary alumnus, respected professor of systematic theology, Smyth lecturer and author; a devout, orthodox Calvinist and beloved teacher.

Robert Alexander Webb, D.D., LL.D.

Review of the 1919 New Orleans Assembly and a memorial biography of Rev. Robert A. Webb, D.D., highlighting his character, pastoral ministry, theological teaching and pulpit emphasis on Christ.

Rev. George A. Blackburn, D.D.

June 19, 1918 issue of the Christian Observer addressing wartime Christian duty, education, stewardship, prayer, missions, Sunday school, marriages and obituaries.
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The Next General Assembly

1918 Christian Observer urges united prayer, legacy giving, and reports missionary news while detailing the United Committee’s temperance education program for soldiers and sailors.
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Liberty in Preaching

Denominational newspaper urging churches to support the $3,000,000 stewardship drive, pray for schools, and respond to wartime issues including President Wilson’s address.
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The Reformation and the Lord’s Supper

Survey of Reformation debates over the Lord's Supper—transubstantiation, consubstantiation, impanation, Zwinglian symbolism, and the Calvinist rejection of a corporeal presence.
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The Evolution Controversy

Account of the 1883–84 Southern Presbyterian controversy over Prof. James Woodrow's evolutionary views at Columbia Theological Seminary, debating creation, Scripture, heresy, and seminary authority.
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The Presbyter

Chapter sketch of John L. Girardeau: devout, eloquent preacher and staunch Presbyterian. He upheld the regulative principle, strict church polity, pastoral standards, and opposed liturgical innovation.
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The Second Coming of Christ: A Postmillennarian View

Postmillennarian essay arguing Christ returns after a Spirit-led millennium. Contrasts post- and pre-millennial views on the object, circumstances, and timing of the Second Coming.
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Revelation: Inspiration: The Record

A theological essay on biblical revelation, inspiration, and the written Record. Distinguishes natural and special revelation, reviews prophetic authorship and theories of inspiration, and affirms verbal accuracy of the original Scriptures.
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The Old Theology and the New

Inaugural address contrasting the 'Old' (traditional) theology with the 'New' theology. Defends Scripture's authority and supernaturalism against Schleiermacher- and evolution-influenced revisionism.
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Calvin’s Doctrine of Infant Salvation

Defends Calvin against the charge he taught infant damnation. Argues Calvin affirmed salvation of elect infants, held reprobate infants guilty (condemned) but not damned as infants.
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The Priesthood of Christ

Argues Christ's priesthood and vicarious, bloody atonement is central to salvation, defending traditional sacrificial 'blood' theology against modern reinterpretations.
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The Theology of Infant Salvation

A 1907 systematic defense of Calvinism's doctrine of infant salvation. Argues infants are morally incompetent, surveys rival theories, and affirms hope in election for dead infants.
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The Revised Confession

Critique of the Northern Presbyterian Revised Confession arguing its affirmation of God's universal love, desire, and atonement undermines historic Calvinistic particularism.
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