Dates & Events
This 1741 sermon became the most famous of the American Great Awakening
What is Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?
“True religion, in great part, consists in holy affections.”
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
John Winthrop governed this Puritan colony headquartered at Boston.
What is Massachusetts Bay Colony?
The year the first American congretation affiliated with the FCC
What is 2003?
The person this college is named after
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
The year the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth
What is the year 1620?
This missionary was expelled from Yale after saying privately that a tutor had "no more grace than a chair."
Who is David Brainerd?
This Second Great Awakening preacher popularized the “anxious bench” and other controversial “new measures.”
Who is Charles Finney?
This Presbyterian minister was the only clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Witherspoon?
This seminary was founded in 1701 because Harvard had drifted from orthodoxy
What is Yale?
In this year, Princeton Theological Seminary opened with Archibald Alexander as its first professor
What is 1812?
"An ungodly ministry is a great curse and judgment."
Who is Gilbert Tennant in The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry?
Banished from Massachusetts, Roger Williams founded this settlement in 1636.
What is Providence, Rhode Island?
This minister operated the influential Log College.
Who is William Tennent?
The first college in America, founded to train ministers
What is Harvard?
J. Gresham Machen and others founded Westminster Theological Seminary in this year.
What is 1929?
“We shall be as a city upon a hill.”
Who is John Winthrop?
This three time presidential nominee and presbyterian elder defended creationism at the Scopes Trial
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
This controversy led to the formation of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) in 1936
What is the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy?
What is the College of New Jersey (later Princeton college)?
The year of the first Presbyterian General Assembly in America
What is 1789?
"You can't split rotten wood" (spoken to Machen on his desire to separate the conservatives and Modernists in the PCUSA).
Who is B.B. Warfield?
Old School Kentucky Presbyterian who took a leading role in the Old School/ New School split
Who is Robert Breckinridge?
This Scottish presbyterian tried to persuade the OPC to practice exclusive psalmody in 1947
Who is professor John Murray?
Machen's founding of this missions agency in 1933 led to his suspension from the PCUSA ministry
What is the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions?