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Morton H. Smith‘s comprehensive book surveys the theological principles and writings of various scholars and preachers from the Southern Presbyterian Church. In the first chapter, Smith provides a brief history of the Southern Presbyterian Church’s origins in the United States during the eighteenth century. The following chapters highlight the fathers of Southern Presbyterianism in chronological...

is religion. In relation to religion, therefore, Theology is a science only in the objective sense.”16 He then proceeds to a defense of this definition of theology. Having thus defined in broad terms the subject to be treated, he turns now to the divisions. “Man being the subject and God the object of religion, it is evident that we can never hope to understand its doctrines without knowing something of both terms of this relation.”17 Here we see him in essential agreement with Calvin, whose Institutes
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