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Issue 3, 1998

Volume 4, Number 3 · Three articles

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  1. Church Renewal Brings Cultural Transformation: The English Revolution of the Early Nineteenth Century Herbert Schlossberg
  2. What Ever Happened to the Great Ends of the Church? James Edwards
  3. Study of the Confessions, Study 4: The Continuity of the Doctrine of God Theresa Ip Froehlich

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In this issue

  1. Church History

    Church Renewal Brings Cultural Transformation: The English Revolution of the Early Nineteenth Century

    Can a church and a society that have lost their way ever recover? Herbert Schlossberg turns to England between Wesley and Victoria, where waves of renewal reshaped schools, reading, morals and law, and finds hope for a discouraged renewal movement today.

    Herbert Schlossberg31 min read

  2. The Presbyterian Church

    What Ever Happened to the Great Ends of the Church?

    What does American pluralism have to do with the great ends of the church? James Edwards argues that the mainline has let tolerance and inclusion replace the church’s own ends, and calls it to be the church again within a pluralistic world.

    James Edwards14 min read

  3. Confessing the Faith

    Study of the Confessions, Study 4: The Continuity of the Doctrine of God

    What does it mean to call the PC(USA) Reformed if its doctrine of God can be reinvented? Theresa Ip Froehlich reads the Book of Order and the confessions to show a God who stays the same from Scripture to the creeds to the church’s constitution.

    Theresa Ip Froehlich8 min read
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