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The Mercersburg Theology Historically Considered

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1912

George Warren Richards
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The Mercersburg Theology derived its name from the town of Mercersburg in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Here was the seat of Marshall College from 1835 to 1853, and of The Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in the United States from 1837 to 1871. While Mercersburg gave the institutions “a local habitation and a name,” they owed their distinctive doctrines to the genius of the German and the Swiss Reformed people in America and to the influence of the contemporary German philosophy and theology.

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Research Article
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Papers of the American Society of Church History , Volume 3 , March 1912 , pp. 117 - 149
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Copyright © American Society for Church History 1912

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References

page 132 note 1 His call to Heidelberg is doubted by Dr. Jas . I. Good, who could not find a note of it in the records of the University. But the records themselves seem to be broken or incomplete.

page 149 note 1 Newman Smyth's Passing Protestantism and Coming Catholicism.