Taught by Bruce Douglass Sundays, January 11 – January 25, 2026 Presbyterians are a branch of a wider spiritual family that has been known ever since the Protestant Reformation as “Reformed.” The figure who is most commonly identified as the founder of the Reformed movement is John Calvin, a French lawyer who became a theologian and pastor and spent most of his…
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Taught by Bruce Douglass Sundays, January 11 – January 25, 2026 Presbyterians are a branch of a wider spiritual family that has been known ever since the Protestant Reformation as “Reformed.” The figure who is most commonly identified as the founder of the Reformed movement is John Calvin, a French lawyer who became a theologian and pastor and spent most of his…
Taught by Bruce Douglass Sundays, January 11 – January 25, 2026 Presbyterians are a branch of a wider spiritual family that has been known ever since the Protestant Reformation as “Reformed.” The figure who is most commonly identified as the founder of the Reformed movement is John Calvin, a French lawyer who became a theologian and pastor and spent most of his…
This class is designed to make sense of certain changes that took place in Reformed political thought in the period after the passions generated by the Protestant Reformation cooled. Last week the focus was on the Reformed response to the great political revolutions that occurred in the late 1700’s, and the development that was emphasized above all was the abandonment of theocratic…
The foundations of Reformed political thought were laid in the 16th and 17 centuries, when the passions unleashed by the Reformation were still strong and the outcome of the competition for power among the contending religious forces was still very much in doubt in several places. But by the late 1700’s and, even more, the 1800’s, all this was less and less…
BLACK PRESBYTERIANS AND THE REFORMED TRADITION Presbyterian churches in America have long had Black members. But even though Black Presbyterians had some eloquent leaders their thinking has not been well known by other Presbyterians in this country (most of whom have been White). Indeed, more often than not the views of Black Presbyterians on everything from theology to civil politics have been…
KATIE CANNON: “WOMANIST” LIBERATION Presbyterian churches in America have long had Black members. But even though Black Presbyterians had some eloquent leaders their thinking has not been well known by other Presbyterians in this country (most of whom have been White). Indeed, more often than not the views of Black Presbyterians on everything from theology to civil politics have been ignored by…
GAYRAUD WILMORE: DESEGREGATION AND/OR BLACK POWER? Presbyterian churches in America have long had Black members. But even though Black Presbyterians had some eloquent leaders their thinking has not been well known by other Presbyterians in this country (most of whom have been White). Indeed, more often than not the views of Black Presbyterians on everything from theology to civil politics have been…
FRANCIS GRIMKE: “Slavery is Gone but its Spirit Remains.” Presbyterian churches in America have long had Black members. But even though Black Presbyterians had some eloquent leaders their thinking has not been well known by other Presbyterians in this country (most of whom have been White). Indeed, more often than not the views of Black Presbyterians on everything from theology to civil…
HENRY HIGHLAND GARNET: The Sinfulness of Voluntary Submission Presbyterian churches in America have long had Black members. But even though Black Presbyterians had some eloquent leaders their thinking has not been well known by other Presbyterians in this country (most of whom have been White). Indeed, more often than not the views of Black Presbyterians on everything from theology to civil politics…