Confessional Presbyterian Journal

The Confessional Presbyterian Journal is an annual, peer-reviewed publication dedicated to Presbyterian doctrine and practice, produced by Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Each volume features scholarly articles, biblical studies, and critical reviews grounded in the Westminster Confession of Faith.

Antiquary: When Did George Gillespie Write Miscellany Questions?

Studies when George Gillespie wrote Miscellany Questions, dating its 22 essays (c.1644–1648) and linking them to Westminster Assembly debates on ordination, ministry, sacraments, and Erastianism.

Chris Coldwell ⬩ 2024

Volume 19

2023

A Plea for Confessional Integrity in the PCA regarding the Second and Fourth Commandments

Argues that permitting ’stated differences’ on the 2nd (images of Christ) and 4th (Sabbath) Commandments threatens the PCA’s confessional integrity under the Westminster Standards.

Geoff Gleason ⬩ 2023

The History of the Formation of the Standing Judicial Commission

Overview of the PCA’s formation and its discipline system: adoption of the 1933 BCO, Rules of Discipline, and the Standing Judicial Commission to preserve orthodoxy.

Scott Cook ⬩ 2023

An Historical Study of Witnesses and their Oaths in the Courts of the Presbyterian Church in America

Thomas E. Rickard ⬩ 2023

Morton Howison Smith — A Brief Sketch of His Life

Biographical sketch of Morton H. Smith (b.1923), detailing his family, conversion, education, and influential role in restoring and spreading Reformed Presbyterianism in America.

Joseph Pipa ⬩ 2023

Ecclesial Unity and Creation Doctrine

Explores how Reformed churches can handle creation-evolution disputes without fracturing ecclesial unity. Argues for faithful, confessional fidelity to Scripture in resolving boundaries.

William VanDoodewaard ⬩ 2023

Recovering and Re-evaluating the Historical Interpretations of the Anti-Christ

Traces Protestant history identifying Rome/the papacy as the Antichrist and critiques modern evangelical amnesia and ecumenism. Calls for recovering biblical and historical grounds.

Ottavio Palombaro ⬩ 2023

The Doctrine of the Heavenly Intercession of Christ in the Works of James Durham

Study of James Durham’s doctrine of Christ’s heavenly intercession—rooted in the covenant of redemption—and its pastoral ’case-divinity’ applications from Isaiah 53 and Revelation.

Colin Dow ⬩ 2023

Reviews and Responses

Concise review of Reformed and Evangelical across Four Centuries: a well-researched, readable survey of American Presbyterian history that favors New Side perspectives but is strong on PCA and Princeton.

2023

Obedient to the Great Commission: The Presbyterian Church in America at Fifty

A fifty-year survey of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), highlighting its 1973 founding, confessional fidelity to Westminster standards, decentralized polity, and missionary focus (Matt. 28).

Zachary Groff ⬩ 2023

“Like a Box of Chocolates”: Experiencing PCA Worship

Traces American Presbyterian worship’s shift from Westminster/regulative principles to varied PCA practices amid revivalism, musical change, and Old School vs New School tensions.

Frank J. Smith ⬩ 2023

The Not-Quite Founding Father: J. Gresham Machen and the Origins of the PCA

Explores Machen’s role as a ’not-quite’ founding father of the PCA. Traces doctrinal, institutional, and personal links between Machen, the OPC, and PCA founders.

Sean G. Morris ⬩ 2023

Machen’s Other Warrior Children: Conservative Presbyterianism in the OPC and PCA

Survey of PCA–OPC relations, tracing Tim Keller, J. Gresham Machen, and debates over confessional identity, evangelicalism, and church union shaping conservative Presbyterianism.

D.G. Hart ⬩ 2023

Southern Presbyterian Ecumenism: The PCUS–RCA Merger Plan, Northern Reunion, and the Formation of the PCA

Examines the failed 1960s Plan of Union between the PCUS and RCA, the rise of liberalism and ecumenism in the PCUS, and how these events helped spur the PCA’s formation and later reunions.

Zachary Garris ⬩ 2023

God’s Not-So-Ordinary Providence: Evaluating the Framework Hypothesis “Because It Had Not Rained Argument” from Ordinary Providence

Argues the Framework Hypothesis misreads Genesis 1–2 by misconstruing ’ordinary providence’ (esp. Gen 2:5–6) and defends a classic six-day reading of creation.

Zachary Groff ⬩ 2023

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Confessional Presbyterian Journal

Antiquary: When Did George Gillespie Write Miscellany Questions?

Volume 19

A Plea for Confessional Integrity in the PCA regarding the Second and Fourth Commandments

The History of the Formation of the Standing Judicial Commission

An Historical Study of Witnesses and their Oaths in the Courts of the Presbyterian Church in America

Morton Howison Smith — A Brief Sketch of His Life

Ecclesial Unity and Creation Doctrine

Recovering and Re-evaluating the Historical Interpretations of the Anti-Christ

The Doctrine of the Heavenly Intercession of Christ in the Works of James Durham

Reviews and Responses

Obedient to the Great Commission: The Presbyterian Church in America at Fifty

“Like a Box of Chocolates”: Experiencing PCA Worship

The Not-Quite Founding Father: J. Gresham Machen and the Origins of the PCA

Machen’s Other Warrior Children: Conservative Presbyterianism in the OPC and PCA

Southern Presbyterian Ecumenism: The PCUS–RCA Merger Plan, Northern Reunion, and the Formation of the PCA

God’s Not-So-Ordinary Providence: Evaluating the Framework Hypothesis “Because It Had Not Rained Argument” from Ordinary Providence

William Perkins on Conscience and Casuistry: Puritan Foundations for Reformed, Scriptural Ethics

We’ve Been Dating It All Wrong: Richard Denton (1603–62) and the Arrival of American Presbyterianism

Who Was William Young? And What Did He Do for the Presbyterian Church

James Durham: A New Biography, Part Two

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