The Oxford handbook of Presbyterianism /edited by Gary Scott Smith and P.C. Kemeny.

The Oxford handbook of Presbyterianism /edited by Gary Scott Smith and P.C. Kemeny. Handbook of Presbyterianism Presbyterianism - New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource. - Oxford handbooks online .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Presbyterians in Africa / Twentieth- and Twenty First-Century North America / The Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy / Presbyterians in the British Isles and the European Continent / Presbyterians in Asia / Presbyterians in Latin America / Presbyterianism in Middle East / Presbyterian Polity / Presbyterian Confessions / Doctrine of Sacraments / Doctrine of God / Ecumenism / Women's Ordination / Presbyterians, Schisms, and Denominations / Doctrine of Humanity / Doctrine of Christ / Doctrine of the Word of God / Doctrine of the Church / Doctrine of the Holy Spirit / Predestination and Election / Presbyterians and Neo-Orthodoxy / Presbyterians and the Charismatic and Pentecostal Movements / Presbyterians, Religious Diversity, and World Religions / Presbyterians and Philosophy, Natural Theology, and Apologetics / Theology of Worship / Hymnody and Liturgy / Preaching / Presbyterians and Ethics / Presbyterians and Church-State Relations / Presbyterians Social Reform / Presbyterians and Higher Education / Introduction / Sixteenth-Century Origins / Seventeenth Century and the Westminster Assembly / Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century North America / Benhardt Yemo Quarshie -- Bradley J. Longfield -- Bradley J. Gundlach -- Ian J. Shaw -- Scott W. Sunquist, Peter Lim -- Alderâi Souza De Matos -- Kaley M. Carpenter -- Jeffery S. McDonald -- Donald K. McKim -- Gordon S. Mikoski -- Ivor J. Davidson -- Louis B. Weeks -- Margaret Bendroth -- P. C. Kemeny -- Marguerite Shuster -- William B. Evans -- Michael S. Horton -- Anna Case-Winters -- Richard Burnett -- W. Andrew Hoffecker -- John P. Burgess -- Michael McClymond -- Martha L. Moore-Keish -- David VanDrunen -- Kimberly Bracken Long -- Jonathan Hehn -- Thomas G. Long -- Mark Douglas -- Mark A. Noll -- Gary Scott Smith -- David S. Guthrie, R. Tyler Derreth -- Gary Scott Smith, P. C. Kemeny -- Gary Neal Hanson -- Chad van Dixhoorn -- Sean Michael Lucas.

Presbyterianism emerged during the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation. It spread from the British Isles to North America in the early eighteenth century. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Presbyterian denominations grew throughout the world. Today, there are an estimated 35 million Presbyterians in dozens of countries. This volume provides a state of the art reference tool written by leading scholars in the fields of religious studies and history.



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