Argues the framework hypothesis: Genesis 1’s seven-day scheme is topical, not chronological. Upholds Genesis' historicity and insists interpretation rest on exegesis, not scientific authority.

Defense of a literal 24-hour reading of Genesis 1 based on Hebrew grammar and narrative structure. Argues ruach elohim = Spirit, explains tohu vabohu, and rejects Babylonian parallels.

Argues animal death entered creation only after Adam’s fall. Defends a vegetarian pre-fall world from Genesis and Romans, opposing views that animals died before sin.

Argues animal death entered creation only after Adam’s fall. Defends a vegetarian pre-fall world from Genesis and Romans, opposing views that animals died before sin.

Reflection on Genesis and modern science—creation, evolution, the Big Bang, and Usherian chronology. Urges hermeneutical caution regarding the six days and genealogies.

Defends a sequential reading of Genesis 1–2 against framework/non-literal interpretations. Argues Hebrew grammar (Vav consecutive) and Moses’ narrative structure support chronological sequence.

Intro to James Woodrow, Perkins Professor at Columbia Seminary—his life, advocacy to harmonize science and Scripture, and the origins of the Woodrow evolution controversy.

Summary of the 1886 Southern General Assembly’s Woodrow controversy: ecclesiastical turmoil over Westminster subscription, Genesis interpretation, and its effects on church polity.

Lecture surveying Old School vs New School Presbyterianism in America, focusing on subscription to the Westminster standards, the 1729 Adopting Act, and revival-era disputes.

History of Columbia Theological Seminary in Columbia, SC: its founding, campus, key leaders (Goulding, Howe), missionary efforts, and its role in Presbyterian Old School–New School debates.

Tribute to Dr. Smith and argument that disputes over social reform and church–state relations (alcohol, slavery, temperance) fueled Presbyterian splits from 1837–1973.

A defense of old-school Southern Presbyterian preaching and its God-centered, Puritan-rooted revivals as a remedy to modern secularism and cultural decline.

Analysis of the 19th-century New School vs. Old School Presbyterian split, linking the New School to transcendentalism, abolitionism, democratic philosophy, Darwinism, and Reconstruction.

Inaugural address presenting Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary as "an uncommon school for uncommon times." Affirms Scripture's authority and commitment to traditional ministerial formation amid cultural decline.