Dissertations, Theses, & Papers


The Contribution of Marcus Whitman to the Development of the Christian Mission of the Presbyterian Church, 1800-1850 (Harold Robert Black, 1957)

A Study of the History and Development of the Presbyterian Church in the South (Philip Charles Bondi, 1948)

The Relations of Gilbert Tennent to the Religious Development of the Middle Colonies (Lawrence E. Brynestad, 1932)

Direct & Immediate? The 19th C. Southern Presbyterian Controversy Regarding God's Call to Ministry (Caleb Cangelosi, 2018)

A History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church (Nancy Elizabeth Clark, 1966)

John Thomson: A Man With a Mission (Alex T. Crockett, 1985)

Power for Missions Restored: Thornwell, Hodge, and the PCA’s Mission to the World (Phil DeHart, 2019)

Benjamin Morgan Palmer: Southern Presbyterian Divine (Christopher Duncan, 2008)

Common Sense and American Presbyterianism: An Evaluation of the Impact of Scottish Realism on Princeton and the South (J. Ligon Duncan III, 1987)

Divine Passibility and Impassibility in Nineteenth-Century American Confessional Presbyterian Theologians (J. Ligon Duncan III, 1990)

Samuel Eusebius McCorkle: North Carolina Educator (William Randolph Enger, 1973)

John L. Girardeau’s Doctrine of Adoption: A Systematic and Biblical Defense (Travis Fentiman, 2014)

James Henley Thornwell: Presbyterian Defender of the Old South (Paul Leslie Garber, 1939, 1943)

The Southern Dissenting Clergy and the American Revolution (Cline Edwin Hall, 1975)

Walter Lowrie (1784-1868): Champion of Presbyterian Missions (Rob Hill, 2014)

A History of the Snedecor Memorial Synod of the Presbyterian Church in the United Stat (Moses Edward James, 1952)

The Plunge into Secession: The Presbyterian Schism of the Reverend Charles Hodge, James Henley Thornwell, and Benjamin Morgan Palmer (Deborah Jane Rayner, 2009)

Robert J. Breckinridge and the Slavery Aspect of the Presbyterian Schism of 1837 (Edmund Arthur Moore, 1932, 1935)

Gilbert Tennent: An Analysis of His Evangelistic Ministry, Methods and Message During the Great Awakening (Cheryl Ann Rickards, 2003)

Catherine Robertson Macartney’s Reformed Presbyterian Identity: Dissenting Presbyterianism’s Struggle For Identity in the Midst of Transatlantic Victorian Evangelicalism (Bryan A. Schneider, 2015)

The Protestant Doctrine of Vocation in the Presbyterian Thought of Nineteenth-Century America (Ruth Douglas See, 1952)

“I Mourn in Bitterness Over the State of Things”: Francis McFarland’s Community at War, 1860-1866 (Nancy Lynn Taylor Sorrells, 1995)

The History of the Presbyterian Church in Oxford, Mississippi (Hugh Stephens, 2016)

The Doctrine of the Spirituality of the Church in the Theology of Charles Hodge (Alan D. Strange, 2014)

The Elements of Power in the Sermons of Samuel Davies (Alton Corliss Trivette, 1956)

Eli Washington Caruthers (George Troxler, 1965)

The History of a Confessional Sentence (Barry Waugh, 2002)

James Henley Thornwell: Presbyterian Defender of the Old South (Paul Leslie Garber) This is a portion of his 1939 Ph.D. thesis, reprinted in 1943.

James Henley Thornwell: Presbyterian Defender of the Old South (Paul Leslie Garber)
This is a portion of his 1939 Ph.D. thesis, reprinted in 1943.