Old Princeton: Her Pastoral Heart
Before Princeton Theological Seminary was founded in 1812, John Witherspoon, the sixth president of Princeton College, wrote in the Form of Government of the Presbyterian Church: “Truth is in order…
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Old Princeton: Her Missionary Outreach
According to Kenneth Scott Latourette the 19th century was “the great century” of missions. He, therefore, devoted three of the seven volumes of his History of the Expansion of Christianity…
Old Princeton: The Seminary’s Influence Through Two Centuries (1812-1929)
On August 12, 1812, people crowded into the Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New Jersey, for the inauguration of Archibald Alexander as the first professor of a new school—a theological seminary. …
Old Princeton: The Legacy of Old Princeton Seminary
The Synod of Dort summed up the soteriology of Calvinism in five points. In this article I will sum up the legacy of Old Princeton Seminary in six points. 1. …