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dc.contributor.advisorBebbington, David William-
dc.contributor.authorMcDonald, Jeffrey Stephen-
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-14T08:28:36Z-
dc.date.issued2014-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/21157-
dc.description.abstractJohn Gerstner (1914-1996) was a key figure in the renewal of Reformed evangelicalism in America in 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 order to achieve 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 critic of theological modernism and had reservations about the theology of Karl Barth—the great Swiss Reformed theologian. 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 U.S.A. (later PCUSA) were largely a failure, but they did contribute to the surprising resurgence of 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 Reformed evangelical movement that exist today. It is a central theme of this dissertation that Gerstner’s significance, at least partially, can be observed in the number of Reformed evangelical scholars and leaders who studied with him and play leading roles in the movement today.en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherUniversity of Stirlingen_GB
dc.subjectGerstneren_GB
dc.subjectHistoryen_GB
dc.subject.lcshUnited Statesen_GB
dc.subject.lcshEvangelicalismen_GB
dc.subject.lcshChurch historyen_GB
dc.subject.lcshPittsburghen_GB
dc.subject.lcshGerstner, John H. (John Henry), 1914-1996en_GB
dc.titleJohn Gerstner and the Renewal of Reformed Evangelicalism in Modern Americaen_GB
dc.typeThesis or Dissertationen_GB
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_GB
dc.type.qualificationnameDoctor of Philosophyen_GB
dc.rights.embargodate2015-06-30-
dc.rights.embargoreasonFuture publication.en_GB
dc.author.emailjsmcdonald@unomaha.eduen_GB
dc.rights.embargoterms2015-07-01en_GB
dc.rights.embargoliftdate2015-07-01-
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