THE LIVING
THEOLOGICAL HERITAGE
OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
Barbara Brown Zikmund
Series Editor
L T H
VOLUME THREE
Colonial and National Beginnings
Edited by Charles Hambrick-Stowe
The Pilgrim Press
Cleveland, Ohio
Contents
The Living Theological Heritage of the United Church of Christ
Colonial and National Beginnings
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Part I. The Congregational Tradition
1. Covenants: "Dedham Church Covenant" (1638)
2. Catechisms: The First Principles of the Oracles of God (1648)
THOMAS SHEPARD
3. Dissent: "The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson" (1637)
4. Worship: "The Bay Psalm Book" (1640)
5. Spiritual Theology: Meditative Poems (c. 1650-1669)
ANNE BRADSTREET
6. Doctrine and Polity: The Cambridge Platform (1648)
7. The Half-Way Covenant: Result of the Synod (1662)
8. Consociation: The Saybrook Platform (1708)
9. Great Awakening: "The State of Religion" (1744)
JONATHAN EDWARDS
10. Piety: "Extracts from [a] Diary" (1744)
SARAH OSBORN
11. Revolution: "A Sermon" (1776)
SAMUEL WEST
12. New Divinity: "The Redemption of Man" (1793)
SAMUEL HOPKINS
13. Unitarian Controversy and a Seminary: The Andover Creed
(1807-18.08)
14. Unitarian Controversy and Disestablishment: The Rights
of the Congregational Churches (1826)
15. Revivalism: Village Hymns (1826)
ASAHEL NETTLETON
16. New Haven Theology: Concio ad Clerum (1828)
NATHANIEL WILLIAM TAYLOR
17. Liberalism: Christian Nurture ( 1847)
HORACE BUSHNELL
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Part II. The German Reformed Tradition
18. Foundation: "The Consistories of the German Reformed
Churches . . . to the Classis of Amsterdam" (1728)
JOHN PHILIP BOEHM
19. Building: "The Journal of Rev. Michael Schlatter" (1746)
20. Coetus: "Minutes of the Second Coetus" (1748)
21. Pietism: "The Ten Virgins" (c. 1785)
LUDWIG DENIG
22. Synod: "Synodal-Ordnung" (1793)
23. Seminary: "Inaugural Address" (1833)
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS RAUCH
24. Lay Theological Reflection: Selected Writings (1837-1842)
LYDIA JANE PIERSON
25. Ohio Synod: "Report on Religion" (1846)
26. Mercersburg: The Principle of Protestantism (.1845)
PHILIP SCHAFF
27. Baptism: Pastoral Letter to the ... German Reformed
Church (1846)
28. The Church: "Catholicism" (1851)
JOHN WILLIAMSON NEVIN
29. Reformed and Evangelical: North Carolina Classis,
"Minutes" (1853)
30. Confessional Faith: The Heidelberg Catechism (1849)
JEREMIAH H. GOOD AND HENRY HARBAUGH
31. Ecumenics: "The Genius and Mission of the German
Reformed Church" (1863)
THEODORE APPEL
32. Old Reformed: Criticism of the Ritualistic Movement (1867)
JOHN H. A. BOMBERGER
33. The Liturgy: Vindication of the Revised Liturgy (1867)
JOHN WILLIAMSON NEVIN
34. General Synod: "The Peace Commission" (1879)
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