ConfessionalTheology
Defending the Faith; Denying the Image
Defending the Faith; Denying the Image
19th Century American Confessional Calvinism in Faithfulness and Failure
Summary: How 19th century Presbyterians simultaneously faithfully defended historic Christian orthodoxy against Enlightenment rationalistic anti-supernaturalism, and accommodated (indeed undergirded) America’s original sin: race-based chattel slavery (and later segregation). The…