What is Presbyterianism? An Address
Overview
Delivered in 1855 before the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia, What Is Presbyterianism? is an informative discourse on the polity of the Presbyterian Church. Hodge regards Presbyterianism as not “a skillful product of human wisdom; but as a divine institution, founded on the word of God, and as the genuine product of the inward life of the Church.”
Top Highlights
“Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people” (Page 16)
“presbyters who minister in word and doctrine are the highest permanent officers of the Church” (Page 36)
“each individual Christian congregation is independent” (Page 6)
“presbyters, who minister in word and doctrine, are the highest government officers of the Church” (Page 6)
“Presbyterianism does not dissolve the bands of authority, and resolve the Church into a mob.” (Page 12)
- Title: What is Presbyterianism? An Address
- Author: Charles Hodge
- Publisher: Presbyterian Board of Publication
- Print Publication Date: 1855
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Presbyterianism; Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. › Board of Publication
- Resource ID: LLS:PRESBYHODGE
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T05:11:56Z
Charles Hodge (1797–1898), an American Presbyterian theologian, was ordained in 1821, and taught at Princeton for almost his whole life. In 1825 he founded the Biblical Repository and Princeton Review, and during 40 years was its editor, and the principal contributor to its pages. He received the degree of D.D. from Rutgers College in 1834, and that of LL.D. from Washington College, Pennsylvania, in 1864. In 1840 Dr. Hodge was transferred to the chair of didactic theology, retaining still, however, the department of New Testament exegesis, the duties of which he continued to discharge until his death.