Mid-America Reformed Seminary’s Series on the History of the URCNA

· Tim Hopper

A four-part video series from Mid-America Reformed Seminary tracing the history of the United Reformed Churches in North America, from the controversies in the CRC through the founding and growth of the URCNA.

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John Mitchell Mason and the ARP Schism: Communion, Psalmody, and the Road to 1822

· Tim Hopper

How John Mitchell Mason's open communion practices and use of hymns contributed to the fracture of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in 1822.

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J. Gresham Machen’s Libertarian Letters to the Editor

· Tim Hopper

A collection of Machen's letters opposing government overreach, from anti-sedition laws to federal education departments.

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The Early Years of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church

· Tim Hopper

The Orthodox Presbyterian Church's first tumultuous decade (1936-1946), including internal conflicts over fundamentalism, Machen's death, and the 1937 split that formed the Bible Presbyterian Church.

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The Formation of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church

· Tim Hopper

The events from 1923 to 1936 that led to the formation of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, including the Auburn Affirmation, Princeton Seminary reorganization, and Machen's trial.

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J. Gresham Machen and the Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy

· Tim Hopper

The life and theology of J. Gresham Machen, author of Christianity and Liberalism, and his role in the fundamentalist-modernist controversy of the 1920s.

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The Debate Over Confessional Revision

· Tim Hopper

B.B. Warfield, Charles Briggs, and the controversy over revising the Westminster Confession that led to the 1903 changes and set the stage for the formation of the OPC.

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Civil War and Gilded Age

· Tim Hopper

The Presbyterian Church during the Civil War and Reconstruction era, including denominational fracturing, wartime ministry, and the reunions that shaped modern Presbyterianism.

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Presbyterianism in Colonial North Carolina

· Tim Hopper

How Presbyterianism came to North Carolina through Ulster Scots and Scottish Highlanders, from the early 1700s through the founding of First Presbyterian Church of Raleigh.

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North-South Polarization: The Presbyterian Church and the Road to Civil War

· Tim Hopper

The Presbyterian Church's division over slavery from the Old School-New School split through the Civil War, examining the debates that fractured American Presbyterianism.

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