Professor Calderwood’s Contributions to Philosophy
Surveys Scottish common‑sense philosophy and Calderwood’s rebuttal of Hamiltonian agnosticism, defending knowledge of God and Christ‑centred Christian unity.
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Professor Calderwood’s Contributions to Philosophy
Religion and Politics
Essay arguing that religion (grounded in the Bible and the Decalogue) should inform public life: the state must uphold moral law, protect religious liberty, and honor the Lord’s Day.
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Christian Morality, Expediency, and Liberty
Essay on Christian morality distinguishing immutable moral law from changeable positive/ceremonial law, evaluating expediency and liberty through Paul’s teaching.
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Horace Bushnell
Profiles John a Lasco and Horace Bushnell, tracing Bushnell’s life and New Haven influences. Examines debates over the will, election, and Christ’s primacy in conversion.
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The Regulation of Railroads
Discusses legislative control of railroads, ownership claims, common-carrier duties, and rate discrimination; argues for judicial enforcement of reasonableness over inflexible statutes.
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Future Paper Money of This Country
Discusses future U.S. paper money: convertible, specie-backed government notes can be sound; warns that inconvertible legal-tender and excessive bank credit cause inflation and panics.
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Proposed Reforms in Collegiate Education
Defends a required college curriculum and disciplined attendance. Warns that broad electives and student choice lead to cramming, indolence, and weak habits; urges core classical training.
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Addresses Delivered at the Funeral of Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater
Memorial addresses for Rev. Lyman H. Atwater (d. 1883). Biographical sketch of his Yale and Princeton service, pastoral career, theological development, and funeral tributes.
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Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater, D.D., LL.D.
Necrological report (Princeton Theological Seminary, 1883) presenting biographical sketches of alumni and professors—careers, writings, church service, and deaths (e.g., Lyman Atwater).
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Lyman H. Atwater, D.D., LL.D.
Encyclopedia of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (Northern & Southern), ed. Alfred Nevin. Includes ministerial biographies, church histories, and institutional descriptions.
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Manual of Elementary Logic (1867)
College textbook on elementary logic for teachers and students. Covers conceptions, judgments, syllogisms, inference, fallacies, and methods of applied logic.
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The Old or a Revised Confession
Debate over a new creed versus revising the Westminster Confession. Authors defend Scripture authority and doctrines like election, warning against liberal revision.
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Presbyterianism: Its Relation to the Negro
Autobiography of Rev. Matthew Anderson and a history of the Berean Presbyterian Church: its founding and growth, mission to Black Philadelphians, church building and debt relief.
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Introductory Address to “In Memoriam of the Late Rev. Alex. Crummell, D.D.”
Memorial address for Rev. Alexander Crummell (1819–1898), celebrating his scholarship, fierce defense of Black manhood, and founding of the American Negro Academy.
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The Success of Christianity, an Evidence of Its Divine Origin
Lecture arguing Christianity’s divine origin; Christ’s resurrection spurred the apostles’ bold witness. Traces rapid early spread (acts 2) and pagan testimony to its triumph.
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September 2, 1857 Letter Regarding Samuel D. Hoge (1857)
Memoir of Samuel Davies Hoge (1791–1826), a Presbyterian minister, college professor, and devoted pastor. Chronicles his ministry, academic service, declining health, and peaceful death.
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Our Theological Students
Civil War-era Central Presbyterian on soldiers’ spiritual needs, destitution, seminary students joining the army, devotional reflections, missions, obituaries, and church news.
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“The Christian Statesman”
Funeral discourse urging that statesmen possess earnest piety, moral integrity, and Scripture-guided judgment. Supports church–state separation while calling for godly public leaders.
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December 20, 1862 Letter
Central Presbyterian (1863): editorial defends selling at market price vs. vague "fair price"; includes children’s pieces, a conversion narrative, and biblical reflections (1-samuel-13; psalms-8).
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