[.ca] History Princeton Theological Seminary: Volume 2 (ISBN 0851516955)

Truly wonderful!:
This is a real labor of love. Dr. Calhoun did his Th.M. and Ph.D. at Princeton and spent much of the next 15 years writing this history. His mastery and passion for the subject really shows. He is a very fine historian. What is also obvious is his pastor's heart. He is not afraid to give expansive quotes form the Old Princetonians which will move your heart to glorify God. Honestly, one o fthe 5 or 10 bets books i have ever read.

Scholarly, readable volume:
I am reviewing this book partly to offset the unfavorable, and I believe misapplied, review by William Lane Johnson. Mr. Johnson seems to review this volume unfavorably based upon the liberalism of modern Princeton, but his criticism is not rightly applicable to the history of the institution during the years that this volume covers. In this volume David B. Calhoun writes of the history of Princeton Seminary from its founding in 1812 to the year of 1868, a time in which the school was orthodox, Evangelical and scholarly. Mr. Calhoun's study is also both warm and scholarly. I purchased and read my copy in the spring of 2002. I am still searching for the second volume of the series, The Majestic Testimony 1869-1929. It was in 1929 that the most conservative faculty members withdrew from the seminary (founding Westminster Seminary) and that Princeton Seminary began a more distinctly liberal pattern. I am not a member of the Reformed-Presbyterian tradition that is exemplified in this volume, but I appreciate much about it and appreciate the scholarly, readable volume of history and biography that this volume presents.

Horrible Christian Theology:
I am not a hypocritical Christian, I just don't appreciate the Liberal Theology of Princeton