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

Includes bibliographies and index.

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