Tag: presbyterian church history

  • Book Review: How is the Gold Become Dim (Morton Smith)

    In December 1973, Dr. Morton H. Smith was elected the first Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church in America. This new denomination of conservative Southern Presbyterians had been formed as the result of a break from the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS). The movement towards a split from the PCUS had been many…

  • Book Review: Fighting the Good Fight (D.G. Hart and John Muether)

    The founding and subsequent growth of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church is the story of a denomination’s sincere desire to maintain faithfulness to the Scriptures and their Reformed summation as contained in the Westminster Standards. It’s a story of how this desire was born, as it were, through a period of intense pangs. D.G. Hart and…