THE LIVING THEOLOGICAL HERITAGE OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST Barbara Brown Zikmund Series Editor L T H VOLUME THREE Colonial and National Beginnings Edited by Charles Hambrick-Stowe The Pilgrim Press Cleveland, Ohio Contents The Living Theological Heritage of the United Church of Christ vii Colonial and National Beginnings 1 Part I. The Congregational Tradition 1. Covenants: "Dedham Church Covenant" (1638) 21 2. Catechisms: The First Principles of the Oracles of God (1648) 37 THOMAS SHEPARD 3. Dissent: "The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson" (1637) 48 4. Worship: "The Bay Psalm Book" (1640) 61 5. Spiritual Theology: Meditative Poems (c. 1650-1669) 69 ANNE BRADSTREET 6. Doctrine and Polity: The Cambridge Platform (1648) 85 7. The Half-Way Covenant: Result of the Synod (1662) 120 8. Consociation: The Saybrook Platform (1708) 135 9. Great Awakening: "The State of Religion" (1744) 145 JONATHAN EDWARDS 10. Piety: "Extracts from [a] Diary" (1744) 158 SARAH OSBORN 11. Revolution: "A Sermon" (1776) 163 SAMUEL WEST 12. New Divinity: "The Redemption of Man" (1793) 171 SAMUEL HOPKINS 13. Unitarian Controversy and a Seminary: The Andover Creed 186 (1807-18.08) 14. Unitarian Controversy and Disestablishment: The Rights 201 of the Congregational Churches (1826) 15. Revivalism: Village Hymns (1826) 223 ASAHEL NETTLETON 16. New Haven Theology: Concio ad Clerum (1828) 233 NATHANIEL WILLIAM TAYLOR 17. Liberalism: Christian Nurture ( 1847) 259 HORACE BUSHNELL VI • CONTENTS Part II. The German Reformed Tradition 18. Foundation: "The Consistories of the German Reformed 274 Churches ... to the Classis of Amsterdam" (1728) JOHN PHILIP BOEHM 19. Building: "The Journal of Rev. Michael Schlatter" (1746) 285 20. Coetus: "Minutes of the Second Coetus" (1748) 301 21. Pietism: "The Ten Virgins" (c. 1785) 312 LUDWIG DENIG 22. Synod: "Synodal-Ordnung" (1793) 323 23. Seminary: "Inaugural Address" (1833) 333 FREDERICK AUGUSTUS RAUCH 24. Lay Theological Reflection: Selected Writings (1837-1842) 342 LYDIA JANE PIERSON 25. Ohio Synod: "Report on Religion" (1846) 352 26. Mercersburg: The Principle of Protestantism (.1845) 358 PHILIP SCHAFF 27. Baptism: Pastoral Letter to the ... German Reformed 372 Church (1846) 28. The Church: "Catholicism" (1851) 391 JOHN WILLIAMSON NEVIN 29. Reformed and Evangelical: North Carolina Classis, 416 "Minutes" (1853) 30. Confessional Faith: The Heidelberg Catechism (1849) 422 JEREMIAH H. GOOD AND HENRY HARBAUGH 31. Ecumenics: "The Genius and Mission of the German 433 Reformed Church" (1863) THEODORE APPEL 32. Old Reformed: Criticism of the Ritualistic Movement (1867) 461 JOHN H. A. BOMBERGER 33. The Liturgy: Vindication of the Revised Liturgy (1867) 469 JOHN WILLIAMSON NEVIN 34. General Synod: "The Peace Commission" (1879) 493 Sources 500 Index 503 Scriptural Index 513.