John Thomas Duffield (1823-1901)

Biography (Famous Americans)

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Courtesy of Dr. Wayne Sparkman, PCA Historical Center.

Courtesy of Wayne Sparkman, PCA Historical Center.

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John Thomas Duffield is buried at Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, New Jersey.

John Thomas Duffield is buried at Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, New Jersey.

The Princeton Pulpit (1852)

The Position of the Human Race in the Divine Economy (1852)

The Discovery of the Law of Gravitation (1866)

A Discourse Delivered at the Opening of the Synod of New Jersey...The Second Advent (1866)

The Philosophy of Mathematics (1867)

A Discourse on the History of the Second Presbyterian Church of Princeton, N.J. (1876)

Take Heed How Ye Hear: A Sermon Delivered in the Chapel of the College of New Jersey, Dec. 10th, 1876 (1877)

Evolutionism Respecting Man, and the Bible (1878)

The Anthropology of Evolutionism and the Bible (1878)

A Summary of the Argument in Defence of Pre-Millennarianism (1879)

Discourse Delivered at the Funeral of John Maclean, D.D., LL.D., Tenth President of the College of New Jersey, in the Second Presbyterian Church, Princeton, N.J., Friday, August 13, 1886 (1887)

Record of the Class of '41: The Semicentennial Anniversary Reunion, Tuesday June 9th, 1891 (1891)

Presbytery Versus General Assembly (1893)

The Rights of a Suspended Presbyterian Minister (1893)

Subjection to Brethren in the Lord (1893)

The Crisis in the Presbyterian Church (1893)

Federation of the Reformed Churches (1895)

The Genesis and the Exodus of the Portland Inerrancy Deliverance (1895)

Heresy Trials: How They May and Should Be Avoided (1898)

Ordination Vows — In What Sense Binding? (1900)

Revision of the Confession (1900)

The Confessional Crisis (1900)

Confessional Supralapsarianism — The Precise Issue (1900)

Revision of the Presbyterian Confession (1900)

Supplement to “The Confessional Crisis” (1900)

Memorial to the Rev. John T. Duffield, D.D., LL.D. (1901)


This article appeared in the January 1878 issue of The Princeton Review.

This 2-part article appeared in the August 15 and 22, 1900 issues of The Presbyterian.

Included here are Theodore L. Cuyler’s address at the memorial service for John T. Duffield; a tribute to the memory of John T. Duffield by the Presbytery of New Brunswick; a memorial minute by the faculty of Princeton University in memory of John T. Duffield; and a bibliography of John T. Duffield.