On being Presbyterian : our beliefs, practices, and stories / Sean Michael Lucas

• Pt. 1: Presbyterian beliefs. God is King : the sovereignty of God -- The priority of amazing grace -- God's story, promise, reign : covenant and kingdom -- What in the world is the church? -- Sacraments : signs and seals of God's grace -- Pt. 2: Presbyterian practices. A heart aflame: Presbyterian and reformed piety -- Gospel-driven Presbyterian worship -- "Decently and in order" : Presbyterian church government -- Pt. 3: Presbyterian stories. The glorious reformation : Calvin, Knox, and the beginnings of Presbyterianism -- Errand into the wilderness : early American Presbyterianism -- The golden age : American Presbyterians in the nineteenth century -- "A true Presbyterian church" : twentieth-century Presbyterianism in the American north -- "A continuing Presbyterian church" : twentieth-century Presbyterianism in the American south.

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Presbyterian Church in America.

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