What Shall We Revise?
Editorial on European politics: Germany's military expansion despite peace claims, French republican challenges after Boulangist defeat; accompanied by publishing and book notices.
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What Shall We Revise?
The Westminster Creed: The Difficulty with the Third Chapter
Editorials report the German Emperor's diplomatic visits, a federal plan for Native American education, debates over telegraph rates, and a court ruling on unsafe electrical wires.
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The Terms of Subscription of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.
Essays and poems exposing American vanities, hypocrisy in claimed religious freedom, racial injustice toward Native Americans, and abuses of political patronage.
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Redemption After Death
Briggs argues Protestants have neglected the Middle State, urging a broader view of redemption and God's love while critiquing scholastic predestination and premillennialism.
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Subscription and Revision
Summarizes Harrison's 1889 message on tariff, silver, pensions, and national education. Urges federal, nonsectarian Indian schools and opposes church-state partnerships.
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The Middle State in the Old Testament
Two essays: one urging pastors to engage and promote missionary work; another surveying the Old Testament's 'middle state' (Sheol/Abaddon) via Genesis, Psalms, and Job.
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Revision of the Westminster Confession
Advocates revising the Westminster Confession to better align with Scripture and contemporary theological progress. Reviews historical shifts in Presbyterian attitudes and affirms the Spirit's guidance.
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Review of A.B. Bruce, The Kingdom of God
Andover Review pieces: Edwards' youthful natural-history observations and a substantial review of A. B. Bruce's The Kingdom of God, focusing on synoptic theology, the kingdom, and Christ's messianic role.
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The Test of the Apostles’ Creed
A 19th-century periodical featuring poems and essays — from literary sketches to political surveys — highlighted by Prof. Charles A. Briggs's essay testing the Apostles' Creed.
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The Historic Episcopate as a Basis of Reunion
Examines the Lambeth Conference basis for Christian reunion, identifying the Historic Episcopate as the chief obstacle and analyzing U.S. church–state relations.
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The Westminster Confession and the Old Testament
Selections from The Independent (May 22, 1890): poems and essays. Argues for endowed, well-equipped urban churches to serve the poor; includes literary and historical pieces.
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How Shall We Revise the Westminster Confession of Faith?
A bundle of essays debating how to revise the Westminster Confession: history, changing Presbyterian attitudes, and doctrinal issues (sovereignty, freedom, Romans 9–11).
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Have the Quakers Prevailed?
Examination of 17th-century debates about the salvation of heathen and infants, the Westminster Standards' intent, and competing readings by Culverwell, Tuckney, and Dr. Shedd.
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The Advance Toward Church Unity
New-Year poems, Frances Willard’s forecast of nationwide temperance and women's civic advances, and David D. Field’s critique of legal procedure with population and immigration projections.
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The Higher Criticism: The Old Testament as Read in Its Light
News on church and civic affairs: debate over disestablishing the Church in Wales, Wesleyan revival and Methodism, Brazil's new constitution, and Anglo-American relations. Concerns about national unity and religious liberty arise.
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Prof. Briggs Replies to Questions
Examines a Presbyterian controversy over Scripture's inerrancy vs infallibility, the trials of Prof. Briggs and colleagues, and urges truth-seeking rather than punitive church action.
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Church and Creed
Survey of creeds from the Apostles' and Nicene to Reformation symbols; advocates returning to primitive creeds and a Bible-based theology over scholastic dogmatics.
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The Authority of Holy Scripture: An Inaugural Address
C.A. Briggs' 1891 inaugural defends Scripture as divine and the primary authority over creeds and dogma, outlining biblical theology's role in seminary teaching and ministry.
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The Theological Crisis
Baron de Hirsch urges active philanthropy to convert paupers into self-supporting workers. Charles A. Briggs diagnoses a theological crisis, calling Scripture and the creeds to supplant traditional dogma.
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Response to the Charges and Specifications Submitted to the Presbytery of New York
Argues biblical conditions of salvation: righteousness, truth, and obedience (psalms; Ten Commandments). Also contains Dr. Briggs' procedural objections to Presbytery charges.
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