Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
... Professor [Philip] Schaff, for example, who is not only a fine scholar and a man of great learning, but, I have no doubt, receives, ex animo, the doctrines of the Heidelberg Catechism, is disposed to apologise for the errors and abuses in the church as belonging to a particular stage of development, where, as it appears to us, fidelity to the truth and loyalty to his Master would have required him to judge and to pronounce according to the law and the testimony. Mr. [J. W.] Nevin, who was for some time his colleague at Mercersburg, has gone much further, and has applied the pantheistic theory of development in such a way as to reach the result of a sort of mixture of popery and eutychianism. ...
For more, see Thomas E. Peck on the Mercersburg school of history.
For more, see Thomas E. Peck on the Mercersburg school of history.