'Colonial Presbyterianism' is a collection of essays that tell the story of the Presbyterian Church during its formative years in America. The book brings together research from a broad group of scholars into an accessible format for laymen, clergy, and scholars. Through a survey of important personalities and events, the contributors offer a compelling narrative that will be of interest to Presbyterians and all persons interested in colonial America's religious experience. The clergy described in these essays made a lasting impact on their generation both within the church and in the emerging ethos of a new nation. The ecclesiastical issues that surfaced during this period have tended to be the perennial issues with which Presbyterians have been concerned ever since that time. Now at the three-hundredth anniversary of Presbyterian organization in America, 'Colonial Presbyterianism' is a timely reengagement with the old faith for a new day.

Editor - S. Donald Fortson III

Since Leonard Trinterud published his fine book on colonial Presebyterianism more than fifty years ago, there has been no other comprehensive study of this formative period in American Presbyterian history. This new book edited by Donald Fortson offers an excellent collection of essays that goes a long way toward updating the subject and showing its ongoing contemporary importance for church structure and Christian life. The book's authors are learned, yet chapters are clear and accessible. The book deserves a wide readership."
—Mark A. Noll
Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History
University of Notre Dame

"This commemorative volume of the three-hundredth anniversary of the first Presbytery in America is a fitting tribute to the vitality and diversity of Presbyterianism over three centuries. The contributors are all experts who bring their knowledge to bear on the figures and events that shaped a dominant spiritual force through the early colonies. This unique book will be valued by those who recognize the theological, ecclesiastical, and cultural significance of Presbyterianism. They will frequently consult it, delighting in it as a rich resource for describing themes that emerged in colonial times and which, in varied ways, are of ongoing significance today."

—Donald K. McKim, editor of the Encyclopedia of Reformed Faith

The Presbyterian Creed by S. Donald Fortson III

Go Figure!
Colonial Presbyterianism
Religion and the Politics of Peace and Conflict
"Those Who Call Themselves Jews" by Dr. Philip L. Mayo
Martin Luther and Buddhism by Paul S. Chung
Evangelicalism and Karl Barth by Phillip R. Thorne
Christ in our Place: The Humanity of God in Christ for the Reconciliation of the World
The Little Church that Refused to Die by William W. Moore
The Subjective Eye
Geoffrey Fisher by David Hein
System and Story by Gale Heide
Paul Tschetter by Rod Janzen
On the Christianity of Theology by Franz Overbeck
My Father-In-Law by Max Zellweger-Barth
Salvaging Wesley's Agenda by Kevin Twain Lowery
Position and Responsibility by Ilsup Ahn
European Pietism Reviewed by Frederick Herzog
Theosis
Faithfulness and the Purpose of Hebrews by Matthew J. Marohl
The Holy Spirit and the Renewal of All Things by T. David Beck
Faith, Theology, and Psychoanalysis by Trevor Dobbs Ph.D.
Practices, Politics, and Performance by Dr. Michael G. Cartwright
The Founding of the Roman Catholic Church in Melanesia and Micronesia, 1850-1875 by Ralph M. Wiltgen
Cross in Tensions by Philip Ruge-Jones
Reception Theory and Biblical Hermeneutics by David Paul Parris
The Holy Spirit in the Theology of Karl Barth by John Thompson
Following Jesus in Invaded Space by Chris Budden
Poverty in the Theology of John Calvin by Dr. Bonnie L. Pattison
Renewing Tradition
A Gentleman in Every Slum by David B. McIlhiney
Codex 1 of the Gospels and Its Allies by Kirsopp Lake
Gladstone: The Making of a Christian Politician by Dr. Peter J. Jagger
Freedom and Civilization Among the Greeks by A. J. Festugiere
God With Us by Joseph Haroutunian
On This Rock by Donald G. Miller
Orthodoxy and Difference by Dr. Dmitri Sidorov
Jesus and the Word by C. K. Barrett
Jesus Christ and Creation in the Theology of John Calvin by Peter Wyatt
The Present and the Past by Richard J. Ginn
God's Wounds: Hermeneutic of the Christian Symbol of Divine Suffering, Volume One by Jeff B. Pool
The Will of God and the Cross by Jonathan H. Rainbow
"Education Has Nothing to Do with Theology" by Dr. Edward J. Newell
Theology of Anticipation by Anette Ejsing
The Epigones by William A. McComish
The Aims of Jesus by Ben F. Meyer
R.S. Thomas: Poet of the Hidden God by D.Z. Phillips
Lo, I Tell You a Mystery by Dr. David A. Ackerman
Coram Deo by Caryn D. Riswold
John and Thomas—Gospels in Conflict? by Christopher W. Skinner
Christus Faber by Ben F. Meyer
Seasons of the Heart by Sara Henderson Hay
The Reformed Pastor by John W. Nevin D.D.
The Diffusion of Ecclesiastical Authority by Darin H. Land
Calvin's Concept of the Law by Dr. I. John Hesselink
Agency, Culture, and Human Personhood by Jeanne M. Hoeft
Naked Faith by Elaine A. Heath
Jesus, the Parable of God by Dr. Eduard Schweizer
Tradition Renewed
Constructing a Relational Cosmology
Reading Daniel as a Text in Theological Hermeneutics
Risking Truth by Scott A. Ellington
The Arminian Confession of 1621
C. S. Lewis and a Problem of Evil by Jerry Root
Polemic in the Book of Hebrews by Lloyd Kim
Philip's Daughters
Reflections of Renaissance England by Dr. Marie-Helene Davies
Theology Beyond Christendom
Schleiermacher on Christian Consciousness of God's Work in History by Abraham Varghese Kunnuthara
Consenting to God and Nature by Dr. Byron C. Bangert
Psalm 29 through Time and Tradition
The Kitchen Saint and the Heritage of Islam by Brother Lawrence
"Jesus Is Victor!" by Christian T. Collins Winn
Living Devotions by Mary Clark Moschella
Enigmas and Powers
The Ubuntu God by Samuel A. Paul
The Realignment of the Priestly Literature by Thomas J. King
The Tangled Bank by Michael S. Hogue
The Hermeneutical Quest
Jeshua by Moelwyn Merchant
New Testament Traditions and Apocryphal Narratives by Francois Bovon
Reading from the Underside of Selfhood by Lisa E. Dahill
Ambushed by Grace by Dr. Thomas W. Currie
A Place Somewhat Apart by Dr. Philip E. Harrold
Speculative Theology and Common-Sense Religion by Linden J. DeBie
Critical Realism and the New Testament by Ben F. Meyer
Where is My Home? by Dr. Zdenek Bednar
A Little Book of Christian Questions and Responses by Theodore Beza
The Triune God by E. L. Mascall
Female and Male: The Cultic Personnel: The Bible and the Rest of the Ancient Near East by Richard A. Henshaw
Revitalizing Theological Epistemology by Steven B. Sherman
The Trial of Jesus Continues by Dr. Rudolf Pesch
Basic Human Rights and the Humanitarian Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa by Gabriel Andrew Msoka
The Sacred Text by Ronald F. Satta
History and Theology by Dr. Piet B. Boshoff
Theology as Hope by Ryan A. Neal
An Unexpected Light by David C. Mahan
A Church Historian's Odyssey by Horton Davies
The Mestizo/a Community of the Spirit by Oscar Garcia-Johnson
Who Needs a New Covenant? by Michael D. Morrison
Searching for Lost Coins by Ann Loades
Saints: Visible, Orderly, and Catholic by Alan P.F. Sell
Schleiermacher's Preaching, Dogmatics, and Biblical Criticism by Catherine L. Kelsey
The Trinitarian Self by Charles Bellinger
From the Margins
Calvin's Doxology by Pamela Ann Moeller
Asian Contextual Theology for the Third Millennium
The Way of Theology in Karl Barth
The Loss and Recovery of Transcendence by John C. Robertson
The Neo-Orthodox Theology of W. W. Bryden by John Vissers
A Vexing Gadfly by Eliseo Pérez-Álvarez
Fire From the Heights by Moelwyn Merchant
How to do Biblical Theology by Peter Stuhlmacher
The Theology of Electricity by Ernst Benz
The Heart of the Gospel by Bernie A. Van De Walle
The Tondrakian Movement by N.V. Nersessian
Probing the Frontiers of Biblical Studies