great australian presbyterians
The Presbyterian
Church of Australia
http://www.presbyterian.org.au/
Introducing the
Presbyterian Church of Australia
http://www.pnc.com.au/~columba/justice/variants/presby/intro.html
The Presbyterian
Church of Australia Act 1971,
constitution, government, union with other churches [pdf format]
The Rev. Professor
Crawford Miller, Theologian, 1913-2001
In 1958
Crawford Miller arrived with his family from Scotland to take up his appointment
as Professor of Systematic Theology in the Theological Hall of the Presbyterian
Church in NSW, attached to St Andrew's College. In Miller's obituary in
the Sydney Morning Herald Richard Campbell wrote, "Miller was never
sufficiently satisfied with his own thinking to write out the major book
of philosophical theology that was always brewing within him. But with
his passing, Australia has lost the most unswerving, and the most powerful,
religious thinker to have graced our shores." Campbell also said,
"When the Presbyterian Church resolved to unite with the Methodists
and the Congregationalists, to form the Uniting Church in Australia in
1977, Miller was one of those who chose to remain a Presbyterian. He wrote
trenchant critiques of the two drafts of the Basis of Union of the new
church, arguing that they expressed excessively an amalgam of theological
liberalism and pietism." See: http://www.smh.com.au/news/0107/16/html/obituaries.html
Waldensian Church
http://www.arpnet.it/~valdese/english.htm
This site contains some history of Valdo, the poor of Lyon, the Waldensian
valleys, museums, the Reformation, "the glorious return," 150
years of martyrdom from the ghetto to freedom, Sonnet XVII by John Milton
and a tribute to Tullio Vinay.
Information about the The Pellice Valley: http://www.arpnet.it/~valdese/pelval.htm
Methodist-Presbyterian
(Waldensian) Church in Brescia, Italy
http://protestanti-brescia.it/
The Moravians
http://www.moravian.org/
Spiritual descendants of the Czech Brethren, this is the US headquarters
site, with some good historical material on their founder Hus, Comenius,
Zinzendorf and the Moravian contribution to mission.
Church of Scotland
http://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/
This site has a considerable amount of information about the Church of
Scotland.
Free Church of
Scotland
http://freechurch.org/index.html
This site has several historical articles on conservative Presbyterianism
as well as links to kindred churches and organisations, many of historical
relevance.
United Free Church
of Scotland
http://www.ufcos.org.uk/
Those who opposed the state recognition of any one particular denomination
stayed out of the merger with the Church of Scotland in 1929. This site
offers a short history of the denomination and its antecedents.
Presbyterian Historical
Society (US)
http://www.history.pcusa.org/
The US Journal of Presbyterian History is also useful: http://www.history.pcusa.org/pubs/journal/
History
of the early American Presbyterian Church
http://sdss4.physics.lsa.umich.edu:8080/~mckay/amckay/presintr.htm
The Reformed Presbyterian
Church (Covenanted)
http://www.covenanter.org/
Contains the text of standard Presbyterian documents but also of the National
Covenant, Solemn League and Covenant, the Sanquhar Declaration and other
historic Covenanting documents and writings, many of them very obscure.
Cumberland Presbyterian
Church
This denomination emerged out of the USA's Second Great Awakening, between
1806 and 1829. The theology of the CPC is described as the middle ground
between Calvinism and Arminianism. This is an unofficial site which links
to resources on Cumberland and general Presbyterian history. The Historical
Foundation of the denomination is at http://www.cumberland.org/hfcpc/
Disciples of Christ
(USA)
http://www.disciples.org/historc.htm
This official site gives a brief history of what we in Australia know
as the "Churches of Christ" tradition. In the early nineteenth
century [Presbyterians] Thomas and Alexander Campbell and Barton Stone
proclaimed a vision that the church of Jesus Christ is essentially one.
The Presbyterian
Church of Aotearoa New Zealand
pcanz.freeyellow.com
The Presbyterian
Church of Eastern Australia
http://pcea.asn.au