SUGGESTION: John Gerstner and the Renewal of Presbyterian and Reformed Evangelicalism in Modern Amer

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John Gerstner (1914-96) was a significant leader in the renewal of Presbyterian and Reformed evangelicalism in America during the second half of the twentieth century. Gerstner's work as a church historian sought to shape evangelicalism, but also northern mainline Presbyterianism. In order to promote evangelical thought he wrote, taught, lectured, debated, and preached widely. In pursuing his aims he promoted the work of the great colonial theologian Jonathan Edwards. He also defended and endorsed biblical inerrancy and the Old Princeton theology. Gerstner was a sharp critic of theological modernism and what he considered its negative influence on the church. Part of Gerstner's fame was his active participation in mainline Presbyterianism and in so many of the smaller Presbyterian denominations and in the wider evangelical movement. His renewal efforts within the United Presbyterian Church USA (later PCUSA) were largely a failure, but they did contribute to the surprising resurgence of Presbyterian and Reformed evangelicalism. Evangelical marginalization in the mainline led Gerstner and other evangelicals to redirect their energy into new evangelical institutions, groups, and denominations. Gerstner's evangelical United Presbyterian Church of North America (UPCNA) background influenced the young scholar and the legacy of the UPCNA's heritage can be detected in the popular forms of the Presbyterian and Reformed evangelical movement that exist today. Moreover, he was significant for the revival of Reformed teaching beyond the bounds of Presbyterianism. This book establishes Gerstner's significance in American church history and provides a thorough analysis of the evangelical movement he sought to reinvigorate.

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Robert M. Warren

I love the old guy and listen to his lectures nearly every night on RefNet (9.30 ET). Listen to Dr. Sproul;s speech mannerisms and intonations and you hear Dr. Gerstner's son. I'll vote.

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Robert M. Warren said:

I love the old guy ...

I do too.  He always struck me as an old school type of teacher.  Didn't need no new-fangled electronics - just give him a blackboard, a piece of chalk, some students to teach, and then just sit back and enjoy an hour of the most engaging and passionate lecture you'll ever hear.  I imagine that every jacket he ever owned had broken pieces of chalk in the pockets and that his fingers had chalk dust embedded in them so deeply that not even the undertaker could get them clean.