Caterpillars and Newfangled Religion The

This work explores the conflicts within colonial American Presbyterianism, providing a new explanation for the schism of the Presbyterian Church in 1741.

Thomas H. L. Cornman is Vice President and Dean of the Undergraduate School at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois.

PART ONE: GENERAL CONTEXTS

The Scope of the Study

1

(8)

The Contour of the Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic World

9

(18)

The Evolution of Presbyterianism

27

(18)

PART TWO: DIMENSIONS OF CONFLICT, 1722-1738

The Search for Doctrinal Purity

45

(22)

The Proper Education of the Clergy

67

(18)

The Assessment of Itinerancy

85

(20)

The Proper Theological Grounding

105

(22)

PART THREE: SCHISM AND ACCOMMODATION, 1739-1788

The Split and Its Quasi-Resolution

127

(22)

The Elusiveness of Unity

149

(16)

Appendix

165

(2)

Bibliography

167

(12)

Index

179

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Caterpillars and Newfangled Religion The Struggle for the Soul of Colonial American Presbyterianism

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