The Confession of Faith of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (Classic Reprint)

The Confession of Faith of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (Classic Reprint)
Author: Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Publisher:
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2015-07-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781331036937

Excerpt from The Confession of Faith of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Cumberland Presbytery, constituted 1810, was divided into three, and a Synod formed in 1813. At this time the Synod modified the Westminster Confession of Faith, and adopted it as the Confession of Faith of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Subsequently, the formation of a General Assembly took place. This judicature revised and adopted the work, at its meeting in May, 1829. In so doing, the Synod and General Assembly only exercised an undeniable right, allowed by the God of the Bible, and secured by the civil constitution; and discharged what they conceived to be a duty to the Church and the world. The occurrences which led to the formation of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church are detailed at large in the Circular Letter of the late Cumberland Presbytery, in a series of letters, commonly called a "Reply" to a Pastoral Letter of West Tennessee Presbytery, in the third edition of Buck's Theological Dictionary, as published in Philadelphia, and the corrected edition, issued by J. J. Woodward, 1844; also in Smith's Church History. To these the reader is referred for correct information on the subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Confession of Faith of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in the United States of America

The Confession of Faith of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
Author: Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Publisher: Sagwan Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2015-08-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781296938048

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Interpreting the Bible and the Constitution

Interpreting the Bible and the Constitution
Author: Jaroslav Pelikan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0300130767

Both the Bible and the Constitution have the status of “Great Code,” but each of these important texts is controversial as well as enigmatic. They are asked to speak to situations that their authors could not have anticipated on their own. In this book, one of our greatest religious historians brings his vast knowledge of the history of biblical interpretation to bear on the question of constitutional interpretation. Jaroslav Pelikan compares the methods by which the official interpreters of the Bible and the Constitution—the Christian Church and the Supreme Court, respectively—have approached the necessity of interpreting, and reinterpreting, their important texts. In spite of obvious differences, both texts require close, word-by-word exegesis, an awareness of opinions that have gone before, and a willingness to ask new questions of old codes, Pelikan observes. He probes for answers to the question of what makes something authentically “constitutional” or “biblical,” and he demonstrates how an understanding of either biblical interpretation or constitutional interpretation can illuminate the other in important ways.