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Charles Hodge counts as one of the most influential theologians of the nineteenth century and one of Calvinism’s most ardent defenders in America. He was born in 1797 in Philadelphia to Hugh and Mary Hodge. He graduated from the College of New Jersey (Princeton University) in 1815, and was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1821. In 1822, at the request of Archibald Alexander, he became a...

all loyal to the great Head of the whole Church as Christian Baptism. (5) That the Reformers and great Protestant theologians had universally and uniformly held and practically recognized Romish Baptism to be Christian Baptism, irregular and deformed by superstitions, but still valid. (6) That this truly Protestant position had been held by the great body of the Protestant Churches to the present time. He was the author of the Answer to the invitation addressed by Pius IX., in his Encyclical to all
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