Baird’s “The Great Baptizer”
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Review of Baird's The Great Baptizer: baptism rooted at Sinai, fulfilled at Pentecost, includes infants in the covenant; defends sprinkling and paedobaptism.
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Baird’s “The Great Baptizer”
Robertson’s Early Religion of Israel
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Essay examines how the relation of thought and language bears on the doctrine of inspiration. Includes a review of Robertson defending the historicity of Israel against higher criticism.
Cocke’s Studies in Ephesians
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Explores how thought and language affect the doctrine of biblical inspiration and infallibility, with philological and psychological notes. Also reviews works on Christian ethics and studies in Ephesians.
Bruce’s “Apologetics”
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Late-19th-century address and review critiquing modern biblical criticism and Bruce's Apologetics. Defends verbal inspiration, the federal Adamic union, and a conservative Calvinistic apologetic.
Shedd’s Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy
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1894 Presbyterian Quarterly reviews: warns of rising Romanism, attacks monism and modern infidelity, and assesses theological works by Shedd and Rice.
Radical Criticism: An Exposition of the Radical Critical Theory Concerning the Literature and Religious System of the Old Testament Scriptures
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A conservative critique of radical Higher Criticism defending the Mosaic origin, unity, and trustworthiness of the Old Testament. Examines the documentary hypothesis, codes, prophets, psalms, and archaeological evidence.
Vaughan’s “Gifts of the Holy Spirit”
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Review of C.R. Vaughan's Gifts of the Holy Spirit: outlines the Spirit's work in unbelievers (awakening, conviction, regeneration, faith) and gifts to believers (illumination).
Drummond’s “Ascent of Man”
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A Presbyterian Quarterly critique of historical rationalism and Drummond's evolutionary naturalism. Defends the biblical account of human origin and warns against minimizing the supernatural.
Beyschlag’s New Testament Theology
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Review of Gerhart's and Beyschlag's New Testament theologies: praises their breadth and method but faults uncertain views of inspiration and excessive critiques of traditional dogmatics.
Balfour’s Foundations of Belief
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Critical reviews of recent theological works. Challenges 'new' Christology and composite readings of Revelation; evaluates Balfour's cautious philosophy of belief.
The Claims of Systematic Theology Upon the Student of Theology
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Reports Southern Presbyterian missions in Mexico and presents an essay arguing that systematic theology is essential in seminary training, supporting biblical study and apologetics.
The Presbyterian Standards: An Exposition of the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms
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Systematic exposition of the Westminster Standards (Confession and Catechisms), explaining core doctrines—Scripture, God, decrees, covenant, Christ, sacraments, and the church—for instruction.
Introduction to J.M.P. Otts’ Christ and the Cherubim
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Shows the Ark of the Covenant as a type of Christ—his person, mediatorial office, and redemptive work—tracing tabernacle typology and its fulfillment in Hebrews.
Johnston’s Systematic Theology
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Review of views on regeneration and soteriology, critiquing a 'moderate Calvinism' systematic theology. Discusses nature and order of regeneration, atonement, election, and ecclesiology.
Schurman’s Agnosticism and Religion
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Affirms regeneration as a real, not figurative, work of the Holy Spirit examined from Scripture and orthodox standards; includes reviews of Schurman and Ely.
Ritter’s Moral and Civil Law
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Reviews and essays on the Old Testament canon, biblical criticism and apologetics, critiquing Wesleyan soteriology and reviewing works on moral law and ministry.
Jevons’ Introduction to the History of Religion
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Examines biblical inspiration and reviews Jevons' book, critiquing anthropological accounts (totemism, fetishism, syncretism) while defending revealed monotheism.
Lindsay’s Recent Advances in Theistic Philosophy of Religion
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Essay on biblical inspiration and a review of James Lindsay’s Recent Advances in Theistic Philosophy of Religion, surveying proofs for God, personality, freedom, and immortality.
Wenley’s Preparation for Christianity in the Ancient World
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1898 Presbyterian Quarterly essay on biblical inspiration. Affirms Scripture as divinely guided through prophets and gradual revelation, contrasted with the Koran.
Genesis of the Westminster Assembly
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Survey of political and religious currents—Tudor-Stuart politics, English Puritanism, Scottish and Continental Reformation—that converged to produce the Westminster Assembly.
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