The Way of Life (1841)
Hodge defends the Bible’s divine origin from its moral excellence and internal evidence. He outlines key doctrines: sin, justification, faith, repentance, and holy living.
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The Way of Life (1841)
Delegation to the Southern General Assembly
1870 account of the Northern General Assembly’s delegation to the Southern Presbyterian Assembly seeking reconciliation. Discusses committee actions, doctrinal disputes, and church-state tensions.
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The General Assembly 1870 (Princeton Review)
1868 General Assembly report: elections, a judicial case over the ‘Declaration and Testimony’, recognition of Southern churches, admission of Knox (Black) Presbytery, Freedmen’s work, and reunion talks.
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The Trial Period in History
Essay defends Genesis as historical: humanity created mature and placed under a moral trial in Eden; a personal tempter (Satan) brings the fall, explaining the origin of sin and death.
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Charles Hodge
Biography of Charles Hodge, founder/editor of the Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, a leading 19th-century defender of Calvinism and Presbyterian church polity.
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Proceedings Connected with the Semi-Centennial Commemoration of the Professorship of Rev. Charles Hodge
Proceedings of the semi-centennial (April 24, 1872) celebrating Rev. Charles Hodge’s 50 years as professor at Princeton Theological Seminary; includes addresses, alumni responses, and endowment reports.
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Systematic Theology, Volume 1
Charles Hodge's Systematic Theology Vol. I (TOC): outlines theological method and major doctrines—God's attributes, Trinity, Christ, Spirit, decrees, creation, providence, miracles.
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Address at Commencement Week
Record of Princeton Theological Seminary Class of 1873 commencement week. Dr. Hodge exhorts graduating ministers to personal holiness, faith in Christ’s divinity and love, and to don the whole armor of God.
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Introduction to James B. Ramsey’s the Spiritual Kingdom
Exposition of Revelation 1–11 examining the spiritual kingdom, the visible church, Christ's mediatorial reign, conflicts, judgments and promises to "him that overcometh."
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Systematic Theology, Volume 3
Table of contents and excerpts from Charles Hodge's Systematic Theology (Vol. III, Part III) on soteriology: regeneration, faith, justification, sanctification, sacraments and eschatology.
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An Exposition of the First Epistle to the Corinthians (1857)
Charles Hodge's introduction to 1 Corinthians outlines Corinth's history, Paul's labors there, and the church's moral, doctrinal, and disciplinary disorders that prompted the epistle.
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Princeton Theological Seminary
Charles Hodge (1874) defends preaching as God’s ordained means of salvation, affirms the Bible’s assumptions and Christ’s offices, and outlines ministerial qualifications and seminary training.
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What Is Darwinism?
Charles Hodge’s 1874 critique defines Darwinism, contrasts it with Scripture, pantheism, Epicurean and Spencerian theories, and defends teleology and theism.
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October 12, 1874 Letter to Robert Watts (1874)
Robert Watts refutes Tyndall’s impersonal atomic ‘god’, arguing science points to a personal Creator and rebukes an Irish Catholic manifesto that limits scientific inquiry.
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Discussions in Church Polity
Charles Hodge's selections on church polity explain the Church as the 'communion of saints,' defend Presbyterian order, and apply principles to American judicatory practice.
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November 2, 1877 Letter to Robert Bremner (1877)
Debate over biblical infallibility: Dr. C. Hodge’s letter defends Scripture’s inspiration and inerrancy, arguing the words are divinely authoritative despite apparent discrepancies.
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The Intuitions and Views of Future Punishment
Contains transcribed African American church songs and hymns, followed by Charles Hodge’s essay defending traditional hermeneutics and warning against modernist currents and declining piety.
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Conference Papers
Preface and table of contents for Charles Hodge's Conference Papers: doctrinal and practical discourses to Princeton students on God, Christ, the Spirit, sin, and pastoral ministry.
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Princeton Sermons
Preface and table of contents of Princeton Sermons (edited by A. A. Hodge): Sabbath‑afternoon conferences and homiletical analyses on God, Christ, the Spirit, and Christian experience.
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Autobiography
Memoir of Charles Hodge by his son A. A. Hodge, tracing his ancestry, education, seminary career, writings, and role in Presbyterian church life and controversies.
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