On being Presbyterian
Subtitle: our beliefs, practices, and stories
By: Sean Michael Lucas.
Publisher: P&R Publishing Co.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Phillipsburg, NJ
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781596380196
Subjects: Presbyterian Church in America.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1: Presbyterian beliefs.; title: God is King : the sovereignty of God; title: The priority of amazing grace; title: God's story, promise, reign : covenant and kingdom; title: What in the world is the church?; title: Sacraments : signs and seals of God's grace; title: Part 2: Presbyterian practices.; title: A heart aflame: Presbyterian and reformed piety; title: Gospel-driven Presbyterian worship; title: "Decently and in order" : Presbyterian church government; title: Part 3: Presbyterian stories.; title: The glorious reformation : Calvin, Knox, and the beginnings of Presbyterianism; title: Errand into the wilderness : early American Presbyterianism; title: The golden age : American Presbyterians in the nineteenth century; title: "A true Presbyterian church" : twentieth-century Presbyterianism in the American north; title: "A continuing Presbyterian church" : twentieth-century Presbyterianism in the American south.