1st Edition

New Perspectives on Old Princeton, 1812–1929

Edited By Kevin DeYoung, Paul Kjoss Helseth, David P. Smith Copyright 2025
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

This book focuses on Princeton Theological Seminary and the theologians who taught there from the time of its founding in 1812 to the time of its reorganisation in 1929. It confronts the standard assessment of Old Princeton in the historiography of North American evangelicalism and sets out why a new paradigm is needed. The volume critically engages with the ‘Ahlstrom thesis’ and other more... Read more

1. Samuel Miller on the Life of the Mind: Re‑imagining the Princeton Paradigm

Paul Kjoss Helseth

2. Reformed Orthodoxy, Old Princeton, and Natural Theology

Kevin DeYoung

3. Archibald Alexander and the Philosophy of Common Sense

Michael Plato

4. Jonathan Edwards, Old Princeton, and American Calvinism

Robert W. Caldwell III

5. Politics, John Witherspoon, and Old Princeton

Gary L. Steward

6. Old Princeton and the Westminster Standards

J. V. Fesko

7. Charles Hodge and Rationalism in Germany and America, 1820–1870

Annette G. Aubert

8. The Spirituality of the Church and Her ‘Painful Responsibilities’

Alan D. Strange

9. The Task of Theology, Progressive Orthodoxy, and the Function of Scripture

Jeffrey A. Stivason

10. The ‘Circle of the Sciences’ and the Theological Nature of All Knowledge

David P. Smith

11. Engaging the Evolution Question at Old Princeton

Bradley J. Gundlach

12. Old Princeton and Effacing ‘This Blot Upon Our Holy Religion’

S. Donald Fortson III

Biography

Kevin DeYoung is Senior Pastor of Christ Covenant Church in Matthews, NC, and Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, NC.

Paul Kjoss Helseth is Professor of Christian Thought at University of Northwestern—St. Paul, St. Paul, MN.

David P. Smith is Pastor of Covenant Fellowship in Greensboro, NC, and adjunct professor of Historical Theology at Erskine Seminary in Due West, SC.