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‘I have often said that Dr. William Childs Robinson was the greatest scholar I had the privilege of studying under. I believe that I took every elective that he offered and would say that his theological influence on my thinking was greater than that of any other teacher. I have quoted him more than probably all of other professors combined.’– D. JAMES KENNEDY<\/p>\n

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‘Dr. Robinson lived in the presence of the living God. He honored his convictions against the pressures of the time and the lure of career ambitions…Even though his work was against the times, this very fact is perhaps the best reason for taking his work seriously. It is likely that his work as a churchman and teacher of ministers was more lasting that can now be estimated. In any case, the final judgment, as he knew so well, belongs to God. Few of Robinson’s critics have been able to match his brilliance, his diligent churchmanship and scholarship, his commitment to the faith and to participation in the organized life of the church.’– JOHN H. LEITH<\/p>\n

‘William Childs Robinson was a key figure in the history of Presbyterianism in the South, and in the whole country. When the struggle in the Southern Presbyterian Church was at its height, Dr. Robinson was right there. If you asked the “founding fathers” of the Presbyterian Church in America, they would all point to him as the stalwart of the faith in this critical days.’– O. PALMER ROBERTSON<\/p>\n

‘As an exponent and a champion of the Reformed faith, William Childs Robinson sought to sound again and again the vital affirmations of the Protestant Reformation. He has emphasized always the authority of the Word of God and the Lordship of Jesus Christ. For him the fact of the sovereignty of God was central, and he constantly taught and preached the doctrine of justification by faith.’– J. MCDOWELL RICHARDS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A minister of the Presbyterian Church in the United States for more than sixty years, William Childs Robinson\u2019s career spanned the great events of twentieth-century history from the Great Depression to the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement. These were difficult years for America and for Protestant Christianity in America. In this book, David Calhoun tells of how Robinson tirelessly laboured to arrest the Southern Presbyterian Church\u2019s slide toward a liberal theological position and preserve the old Calvinism that had marked the church from its beginning. In seminary classrooms, in pulpits across the South and beyond, and in the courts of the church, Robinson\u2019s voice was heard \u201cpleading for a Reformation vision\u201d based on faithfulness to Scripture and supported by the testimony of Reformers, English Puritans and Scottish Covenanters.<\/p>\n

There then follows a selection of twenty-three articles from Robinson\u2019s pen which show something of the breadth and depth of Robinson\u2019s vision. In them one sees a man who exercised an all-round ministry as evangelist, pastor, church historian, and theologian, equally at ease writing on such diverse subjects as \u201cThe Saviour of Sinners\u201d, \u201cUnder His Wings\u201d, \u201cThe Theological Emphases of the Old Columbia Seminary\u201d, and \u201cThe Trinity: God in Action\u201d. Though unsuccessful in halting the church\u2019s decline into theological liberalism, Robinson\u2019s long years of ministry influenced successive generations of students and ministers, many of whom preserve his legacy by pleading for the same \u201cReformation vision\u201d.<\/p>\n

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