Western Christianity is a term used to include the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church and groups historically derivative thereof, including the churches of the Anglican, Lutheran, Presbyterian, and other Protestant traditions that share common attributes that can be traced back to their medieval heritage.

Several Protestant denominations in North America presently honor the Catechism officially: the Presbyterian Church in America, the Christian Reformed Church, the United Reformed Churches, the Presbyterian Church ( USA ), the Reformed Church in America, the United Church of Christ ( a successor to the German Reformed churches ), the Reformed Church in the United States ( also of German Reformed heritage ), the Free Reformed Churches of North America, the Heritage Reformed Congregations, the Canadian and American Reformed Churches, and several other Reformed churches of Dutch origin around the world.

His father, Worden McDonald, from Oklahoma, was of Scottish Presbyterian heritage ( the son of a minister ).

In his address announcing the new name, seminary president Brian Blount emphasized the school's unique heritage of several " unions ," as well as the school's Presbyterian identity.

Trends are visible, however, as most united and uniting churches have one or more predecessors with heritage in the Reformed tradition ( either Presbyterian, Congregationalist, or both ) and many are members of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches.

This strong Scottish, Presbyterian, and agriculture-driven heritage was influential in MacEwan's life.

( He is actually Presbyterian, of English and French-Canadian heritage.

Second Presbyterian Church occupies a prominent place in Chicago ’ s social and industrial history and its artistic heritage.

In 1868 formal ties with Presbyterian and Congregational churches were cut, but Ripon remained somewhat religious for much of its history.

He then had a guardian named Downes who moved him to another private school at St Albans where he was much influenced by the Presbyterian minister Samuel Clarke ( not to be confused with Samuel Clarke, ( 1599 – 1683 ), the English clergyman and Puritan biographer ).

Chavis accomplished much in his life including fighting in the American Revolution, studying at both Liberty Hall and the College of New Jersey ( now Princeton University ), becoming an ordained Presbyterian minister, and opening a school that instructed white and poor black students in North Carolina.

The PCA is generally less theologically conservative than the Orthodox Presbyterian Church ( which split from mainline Presbyterianism much earlier ), but more conservative than the Evangelical Presbyterian Church ( which split from the mainline more recently ), though the differences can vary from presbytery to presbytery and even congregation to congregation.

Caroline attended Oberlin College and the Women's Medical College of Philadelphia ( much later the Medical College of Pennsylvania ); she was married, first to Edward J. Wyley, and after his death, to the Reverend Matthew Anderson, longtime pastor of the Berean Presbyterian Church in North Philadelphia.

Hiring Hays to " clean up the pictures " was, at least in part, a public relations ploy and much was made of his conservative credentials, including his roles as a Presbyterian deacon and past chairman of the Republican Party.

There is not much known about his home life, but his schooling started in the winter of 1814, as he, as well as the older Clemson ’ s, attended day school at Tabernacle Presbyterian Church.

The IRD focuses much of its criticism on the policies of the United Methodist Church, the Episcopal Church and the Presbyterian Church ( USA ).

While the Church of England remained dominant, a powerful Puritan minority, represented by around one third of the members of Parliament, had much in common with the Presbyterian Scots.

I'm probably remarkably wicked but not very wild, I fear too much ingrained Presbyterian caution ".

Perason found, however, that his position at the university was not satisfactory, and decided to accept the position of headmaster of the newly formed Presbyterian Ladies College at a much increased salary.

Typical of historically black colleges, Hampton received much of its financial support in the years following the Civil War from the American Missionary Association ( whose black and white leaders represented the Congregational and Presbyterian churches ), other church groups and former officers and soldiers of the Union Army.

After adjourning early in the hours of June 10, they later reconvened as the General Assembly, and also met with others ( including women's missionary groups ) into a congress at St. Andrew's Church ( Toronto ); these two key Toronto congregations provided much of the input and support for the Presbyterian Church Association, in this fight against Church Union.

Though facing much opposition-from violence to the U. S. Postmaster General refusing to allow the mails to carry abolition pamphlets to the South-many Methodist, Baptist, and Presbyterian members freed their slaves and sponsored black congregations, in which many black ministers encouraged slaves to believe that freedom could be gained during their lifetime.

In 1865, the local Conservative MP, Lord Claud John Hamilton, won control of the Apprentice Boys and rallied the organisation against the campaign to disestablish the Anglican Church of Ireland, much to the dismay of many Presbyterian members.

Eric Williams had managed to attract much of the Muslim and Presbyterian portions of the Indo-Trinidadian population to the PNM.

Even after the Scot Seceders had made their peace with other elements in the mother country, American Seceders retained their separate identity until 1858, when most of them united with much of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church to form the United Presbyterian Church of North America.

The EPC was formed because its members believed the large mainstream denominations from which they had come, including the Baptist, Presbyterian and Methodist churches in Australia, had departed from fundamental Christian truths and contained too much spiritual compromise.

The Queensland Lutherans were " of a kind much more akin to 18th Century Moravians and Methodists than the confessionalism of Lutheranism, or the propositionalism of fundamentalism ( a Presbyterian heresy ).

His parents, Jean and George Edwards ( a retired professor of theology and Presbyterian minister ) of Louisville, Kentucky, are pacifists and civil rights activists who influenced Johnny to have as much contact with African-Americans as possible.

* Scots Presbyterian Church, a much simpler building than St James, was built and dedicated in 1862.

Held by many Protestant groups who take what they believe is a more literal interpretation of the Bible, including many, but not most, Pentecostal Charismatic and Baptist churches and Independent and ' Non-denominational ' churches as well as a few of the Presbyterian Church and Wesleyan / Methodist churches.

The first formulation of American fundamentalist beliefs can be traced to the Niagara Bible Conference and, in 1910, to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, which distilled these into what became known as the " five fundamentals ":

1786: The first church built in the county was Lycoming Presbyterian church in what was known as Jaysburg and is now the Newberry section of Williamsport.

In addition, a Presbyterian church once existed on what is currently the property of the United Methodist Church.

Some Scottish Presbyterian ministers saw the fanners as sins against God, for wind was a thing specially made by him and an artificial wind was a daring and impious attempt to usurp what belonged to God alone.

In 1692 those of the Presbyterian Faith built a church and burial ground on what is now Gordons Corner Road.

* The Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center, 300 Pepper St., is a nonprofit association established in 1983 and preserved what had been the Presbyterian Manse, which dated back to 1852.

The first Court House, which was built in 1787, stood on what is now the North East Corner of Second and Main Streets and the jail stood on the opposite side of Main Street near where the Presbyterian church now stands.

On the other hand, some writers from the Reformed Presbyterian tradition, such as Brian Schwertley, assert that CCM violates the second commandment and the Regulative Principle of Worship because it adds man-made inventions, lyrics and instrumental music to what he asserts to be the biblically appointed way of worshipping God.

The modern situation largely dates from 1690, when after the Glorious Revolution the majority of Scottish bishops were non-jurors, and in response Presbyterian government was guaranteed by law, excluding what became the Scottish Episcopal Church.

Under the Act of Parliament that dealt with the financial and property issues arising from the merger between what had become by then the Congregational Church of England and Wales and the Presbyterian Church of England, certain assets were divided between the various parties.

Some of the first buildings established in Cazenovia were what is now the Presbyterian Church and the company store.

Having been eventually defeated numerous times in the General Assembly by a coalition of the liberals and moderates from the 1960s onward, some PCUS conservatives, primarily from non-metropolitan parts of the Deep South, founded what today is the Presbyterian Church in America ( PCA ) in late 1973, formally citing its rationale as " long-developing theological liberalism which denied the deity of Jesus Christ and the inerrancy and authority of Scripture " on the part of PCUS leaders.

Holliday's mother had been raised a Methodist and later joined a Presbyterian church ( her husband's faith ), but objected to the Presbyterian doctrine of predestination and reconverted to Methodism publicly before she died, saying she wanted her son John to know what she believed.

It was founded in 1869 in Toronto by Timothy Eaton, a Presbyterian Ulster Scot immigrant from what is now Northern Ireland.

A Presbyterian and a conservative, J. Howard Pew insisted that the college operate only on what it received in tuition and fees.

He was a major figure in the Covenanter movement that fought for the Presbyterian religion and what they saw as Scottish interests during the English Civil War of the 1640s and 1650s.

The Avenue extends south into Near South Side, Chicago and beyond – past what was once the notorious Levee District, the graceful homes of the Prairie Avenue District, the historic Second Presbyterian Church, the former home of the legendary Chess Records at 2120 South Michigan and the site where the Lexington Hotel, a hideout of Al Capone once stood.

In 1847 a union was formed between all the congregations of the United Secession Church and 118 out of 136 of the Relief Churches, in what now became the United Presbyterian Church.

Finally, what can rightly be called the first academic assessment of Mackay to appear in English was published in 2012, a collection of essays by scholars who participated in the first Mackay workshop at Queen's University ( Kingston ) and others living and working on Mackay in Taiwan, entitled The Life and Legacy of George Leslie Mackay: An Interdisciplinary Study of Canada's First Presbyterian Missionary to Taiwan ( 1872-1901 ).

Another alternative perspective, promoted by David Hume's 18th-century opponent, Presbyterian philosopher Thomas Reid, and perhaps hinted at by Hume himself, at least in some moods ( though this is a very controversial issue in interpreting Hume ), has it that some of our " natural " beliefs — beliefs we are led to form by natural features of the human constitution — have what can be called an " innocent-until-proven-guilty " status.

After his conversion in 1821, Presbyterian minister and revivalist Charles Grandison Finney experienced what he called " baptism in the Holy Spirit " accompanied by " unutterable gushings " of praise.

Brady moved to Alaska Territory first as a Presbyterian minister, missionary, lawyer and co-founded what is now Sheldon Jackson College as a school for training Alaska Natives in 1878.