‘This splendid, thoroughly researched, two-volume history of Princeton Seminary reads like a novel. It tells the story of one of the key institutions that shaped the transformation of post-colonial, adolescent America into a world power, and that for the first time made the Christian faith global, carrying it literally to the uttermost ends of the earth. Calhoun has ‘the gift’ , he makes historical characters spring to life. His story is more than the story of a theological seminary; it captures the essence of a whole century and a quarter (1812-1929) of the coming of age of America.’ — SAMUEL HUGH MOFFET<\/p>\n
‘What a blessing for mind and heart!’ — ROBERT PETERSON, PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY, COVENANT SEMINARY<\/p>\n
Volume 1<\/strong> Volume 2<\/strong> But faithfulness to Christ and Scripture may\u00a0well lead to conflict, as the Princetonians\u00a0often stressed. One such conflict would eventually divide the faculty itself and cause the\u00a0loss of some of its brightest stars, as Dr.\u00a0Calhoun records. He has given us a narrative\u00a0of joy and sorrow, surprise and disappointment, triumph and sometimes tears. All this\u00a0and more lies in the story of Princeton Seminary between 1869 and 1929.<\/p>\n This is indeed a ‘majestic testimony’ and it leaves upon us the same conviction that\u00a0Archibald Alexander’s grandson expressed at the Seminary’s centenary in 1912;\u00a0‘If the sort\u00a0of theology which is taught here should die,\u00a0and its enemies should grant it a decent burial,\u00a0like the Lord of Life Himself, it will have a\u00a0triumphant resurrection. For the Gospel which\u00a0it teaches is an unconquerable force.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ENDORSEMENTS ‘This splendid, thoroughly researched, two-volume history of Princeton Seminary reads like a novel. It tells the story of one of the key institutions that shaped the transformation of post-colonial, adolescent America into a world power, and that for the first time made the Christian faith global, carrying it literally to the uttermost ends of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[2227,1261],"product_tag":[5861],"class_list":{"0":"post-20618","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-collected-workssets","7":"product_cat-history-biography","8":"product_tag-old-princeton","9":"pa_binding-cloth-bound","10":"pa_format-book","11":"pa_isbn-17634","12":"pa_original-pub-date-2527","13":"pa_page-count-5862","14":"pa_recent-pub-date-nov-1-1996","15":"pa_recent-pub-date-year-6133","16":"pa_subtitle-2-volume-set","17":"pa_theauthor-calhoun-david","18":"pa_topic-19th-century","19":"pa_topic-20th-century","20":"pa_topic-general-history","21":"pa_topic-history-and-biography","23":"first","24":"instock","25":"purchasable","26":"product-type-simple"},"bundled_by":[],"bundle_stock_status":"instock","bundle_stock_quantity":null,"bundle_virtual":false,"bundle_layout":"","bundle_add_to_cart_form_location":"","bundle_editable_in_cart":false,"bundle_sold_individually_context":"","bundle_item_grouping":"","bundle_min_size":"","bundle_max_size":"","bundle_price":[],"bundled_items":[],"bundle_sell_ids":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nFrom modest beginnings in 1812, Princeton Seminary soon became an intellectual and theological school of great importance. Long before the death of its first professors its name was almost synonymous with erudite biblical exposition, carefully worked-out reformed theology and deep spirituality. Hundreds of ministers (Baptist as well as Presbyterian) and many outstanding missionaries passed through its lecture rooms, chapel services and communal fellowship to leave a permanent spiritual mark on the people whom they later served in the advance of the gospel. These
\nwere men who believed that \u2018preaching Christ is the best, hardest, sweetest work, on this side of beholding him.\u2019 In this, the first of two volumes, we have the story with a wealth of detail and colour down to the year 1868. While the history of an institution, it is also a record of thought and action, trends and personalities. Backed by years of careful research, by his own long experience in the training of men for the ministry, David Calhoun has produced a work which must find a permanent place in the Christian literature of the English-speaking world.<\/p>\n
\nHere we encounter the great Hodge lineage;\u00a0the broad scholarship of B. B. Warfield; the\u00a0brilliance of Geerhardus Vos; the emergence\u00a0of the young J. Gresham Machen. And\u00a0through them we are introduced to the army\u00a0of men they taught, loved, and sent through-out the world to serve Jesus Christ. It is a story\u00a0which enables us to catch a glimpse of what,\u00a0under God, scholarship, seminary life and Christian fellowship can be.<\/p>\n