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Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

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American theology. Dr. Nevin, however, was not<br />

the American Newman. He was only the<br />

forerunner. The outstanding leader, his associate,<br />

was Dr. Philip Schaff, President of both American<br />

Committees of Revision, Old and New Testament.<br />

The following quotation will show, in an<br />

introductory way, how the Mercersburg Movement<br />

stood related to American churches, to the Oxford<br />

Movement, and to Dr. Schaff:<br />

“The works of the Mercersburg professors are<br />

fraught with dangerous tendencies. The Reformed<br />

Dutch Church has, by a public and solemn act,<br />

withdrawn from ecclesiastical relations with the<br />

German Reformed Church, her ancient ally, on<br />

account of her countenance of those works and of<br />

their authors. The General Assembly of the<br />

Presbyterian Church (O.S.) has suspended her<br />

relations with that denomination for the present<br />

year, and awaits further developments. This painful<br />

step has, in both cases, been taken after much<br />

deliberation, and with the calmness and dignity<br />

which befit a Christian Church. ...<br />

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