Charles Hodge - Discussion in Church Polity

[Reena Wilms]

Does anyone knows this book ? Whats about ?

Ralph

 

[Casey]

I've just purchased this book. Anyone read it?

 

[Casey]

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[Contra_Mundum]

From Paradigms in Polity, ed. by David W. Hall and Joseph H. Hall

p.446, introduction to excerpts of The Church and Its Polity.

Following his [Ch. Hodge] death in 1878 a collection fo his many articles was assembled and prefaced by his son, A.A. Hodge. Entitled The Church and Its Polity, this important and pertinent volume has several sources. Its first primary sourse was the collection of annual articles written by Hodge on the General Assembly that were published in the Princeton Review in the years 1835-1868. This important generation found Hodge an eyewittness to the Old School/New School division, efforts at reunion, the outbreak of the Civil War, and finally reunion after the war. The second main source of these articles came from class notes taught by Hodge on ecclesiology beginning in 1845 at Princeton Seminary. It was Hodge's intention to write a fourth volume of his Systematic Theology solely devoted to considerations about ecclesiology. This large book, which has long been out of print [1994, BGB] covers a variety of topics. Each writing carefully reflects the reasoned principles of Hodge as exemplifying the best of the Old School movement and attends to topics that have practical and lasting importance.

 

[VirginiaHuguenot]

Is Discussions in church polity: from the contributions to the "Princeton Review" (1878) the same work as The Church and its Polity (1879) (available online here)?