A History of the New School

By Samuel J. Baird

Table of Contents

  1. The English Heads of Agreement

  2. The General Presbytery

  3. The Adopting Act

  4. The Preliminary Act

  5. The Explanatory Act

  6. The New Side Schism

  7. The Later Doctrinal History

  8. The Assembly and the Confession

  9. The New England Churches

  10. The Plan of Union

  11. New England Theology

  12. New Haven Theology

  13. The Controversy in New England

  14. Practical Pelagianism

  15. The Hopkinsian Controversy

  16. Growing Uneasiness in the Church

  17. Earlier Evangelic Agencies

  18. The Education Question

  19. Our Missions and the American Board

  20. The Home Missionary Question

  21. The System of Congregationalizing Agencies

  22. Barnes’ First Trial

  23. The Assembly of 1831

  24. The Western Missionary Question

  25. Elective Affinity Church Courts

  26. The Assembly of 1834

  27. The Act and Testimony

  28. The Convention and Assembly of 1835

  29. The Western Foreign Missionary Society

  30. Discipline Attempted

  31. Barnes’ Second Trial

  32. The Assembly of 1836

  33. The Crisis

  34. The Reforming Assembly of 1837

  35. The Disruption of 1838