CROSSED FINGERS

HOW THE LIBERALS CAPTURED THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication Page

Timeline

Note to the Reader

Foreword

Preface

Face Page Introduction

Introduction 

Part 1: Orthodoxy and Its Discontents

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Introduction to Part 1

Chapter 1: Theologies in Conflict

Conclusion to Part 1

 

Part 2: From Old School to New School

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Introduction to Part 2

Whose Legitimacy?

Chapter 2: Old School vs. New School

Whose Authority?

Chapter 3: Authority: Biblical, Confessional, Ecclesiastical

Chapter 4: Testing Orthodoxy's Will to Resist

Chapter 5: The Last Heresy Trials, 1891-1900

Conclusion to Part 2

Part 3: From Evangelicalism to Liberalism

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Introduction to Part 3

Whose Legality?

Chapter 6: Shadow Government, Administrative Law

Whose Sanctions?

Chapter 7: Darwinism, Democracy, and the Public Schools

Chapter 8: The Revival of Rhetoric

Chapter 9: The Auburn Affirmation and Its Aftermath

Chapter 10: Princeton, Pensions, and Peace

Chapter 11: Conflict Over Foreign Missions

Whose Inheritance?

Chapter 12: Inheritance and Disinheritance

Conclusion to Part 3

Part 4: Analysis of the Liberals' Strategy

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Introduction to Part 4

Chapter 13: Theology, Strategy, Tactics

Chapter 14: Monopoly Returns and the Flow of Funds

Conclusion to Part 4

 

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Conclusion

Apendixes

Appendix A: H. L. Mencken's Obituary of Machen: "Dr. Fundamentalis"

Appendix B: How to Immunize Presbyterianism

Appendix C: The Strange Legacy of the Westminster Assembly

Appendix D: Francis Schaeffer and the Presbyterian Conflict

Appendix E: Winners and Losers