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The family tree of American Presbyterianism, 1706–1983. Courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA, and updated.. Presbyterianism has had a presence in the United States since colonial times and has exerted an important influence over broader American religion and culture.
A History of the Southern Presbyterian Church. New York: The Christian Literature Company. Longfield, Bradley J. (2013), Presbyterians and American Culture: A History, Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster Johh Knox Press, ISBN 9780664231569
Presbyterian Church in the USA (1916), The Constitution of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work. Rogers, Jack B. (Summer 1981). "Biblical Authority and Confessional Change". Journal of Presbyterian History. 59 (2). Presbyterian Historical Society: 131 ...
Presbyterians trace their history to the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. The Presbyterian heritage, and much of its theology, began with the French theologian and lawyer John Calvin (1509–64), whose writings solidified much of the Reformed thinking that came before him in the form of the sermons and writings of Huldrych Zwingli.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America - around 6,500 members - Liberal, Presbyterian, Arminian Evangelical Assembly of Presbyterian Churches in America - 73 churches in the USA - formed by churches of Korean and Chinese origin.
Presbyterianism is a Reformed (Calvinist) Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders. [2] Though other Reformed churches are structurally similar, the word Presbyterian is applied to churches that trace their roots to the Church of Scotland or to English Dissenter groups that were formed during the English Civil War.
A Brief History of the Presbyterians (Fourth ed.). Nevin, Alfred (1888). History of the presbytery of Philadelphia, and of the Philadelphia Central. Patterson, R.M. (1876). Historical Sketch of the Synod of Philadelphia. pp. 8–9. Thompson, Robert Ellis (1895). A History of the Presbyterian Churches in the United States. The Christian ...
Presbyterians trace their history to the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. The Presbyterian heritage, and much of its theology, began with the French theologian and lawyer John Calvin (1509–1564), whose writings solidified much of the Reformed tradition that came before him in the form of the sermons and writings of Huldrych Zwingli.