In particular, the conservative group defended that teaching aggressively, a doctrine that liberal critics deemed a justification for maintaining racial segregation and preserving the social standing of historic upper-class elites within Southern society, a fair percentage of which were PCUS members.

Some evangelicals, however, remained in the PCUS in order to contend for their beliefs ; this group was more willing to perceive common cause with UPCUSA conservatives.

The PCUSA thus became known ( sometimes pejoratively ) as the " Northern church ," although it maintained a presence in the Southern U. S. through its work among African-Americans and through some congregations in Appalachia that, in accordance with the region's political support for the Union, refused to leave for the PCUS.

Attempts at union between the churches ( UPCUSA and PCUS ) were renewed in the 1970s, culminating in the merger of the two churches to form the Presbyterian Church ( USA ) on June 10, 1983.

A new national headquarters was established in Louisville, Kentucky in 1988 replacing the headquarters of the UPCUSA in New York City and the PCUS located in Atlanta, Georgia.

The PCA formed as part of a major realignment among U. S. Presbyterians, who had been divided on regional grounds since the Civil War between the southern PCUS and the northern-based ( though it had grown to have congregations in all 50 states ) UPCUSA.

After the PCA congregations left, the PCUS was able to work more closely with the UPCUSA towards a merger which finally happened in 1983 as the two formed the present Presbyterian Church ( U. S. A .).

Still, the UPCUSA went forward with its ecumenical ambitions, the primary of which was reunion with the Presbyterian Church in the United States ( PCUS, often called, inaccurately, the " Southern " church ), which split from the PCUSA in 1861 at the start of the Civil War.

Although the UPCUSA sought from its beginning in putting into effect a merger between the two churches, it was not until the 1970s, when a significant number of conservative PCUS congregations left to form the Presbyterian Church in America, that talks gained strong momentum.

" A Brief Statement of Faith " is a reformed confession written by a committee of this church following the 1983 reunion of the Northern ( UPCUSA ) and Southern ( PCUS ) branches of the church.

Also in 1983, on the eve of the UPCUSA's and PCUS ' merger into the current PC ( USA ), several PCUS churches that had originally remained loyal in 1973 opted to join the PCA ( some others joined the recently-formed Evangelical Presbyterian Church, unrelated to the 1950s and 1960s body of that name ).

A clause in the Plan of Union between the two mainline bodies allowed dissenting PCUS congregations to refrain from joining the merger and to join the denomination of their choosing.

However, RTS received its initial support at the time of its founding in the mid-1960s by PCUS pastors and churches that would ultimately join the PCA.

Also divisive was the Civil Rights Movement, the response to which in effect split the PCUS into three factions: a liberal group desiring full endorsement of the movement's platform, a moderate faction desiring church-wide consensus before taking positive action, and a conservative / traditionalist group vigorously opposing what it believed was the meddling of the church in the civil and cultural traditions of its native region.

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.

The PCUS was one of the more conservative bodies of Presbyterianism throughout most of its history, with a strong emphasis on subscription to the Westminster Confession and interest in Calvinist scholasticism, particularly as expressed in Common Sense Realism and later the Princeton Theology.

* Joseph R. Wilson ( Woodrow Wilson's father )-a founder of PCUS and its first permanent stated clerk

By the 1970s, conservative pastors in the PCUS began to plan an exit from the denomination.

In December 1973, delegates from 260 congregations ( over half of them from Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina ) that had left the PCUS gathered at Briarwood Presbyterian Church in suburban Birmingham, Alabama, and organized the National Presbyterian Church.

It was this body that merged with the PCUS to form the present-day Presbyterian Church ( USA ) in 1983.

Wilson's father was one of the founders of the Southern Presbyterian Church in the United States ( PCUS ) after it split from the northern Presbyterians in 1861.

In the meantime, in 1861, almost all the churches in the Southern U. S. separated from the PCUSA over the issue of slavery, forming what would come to be known as the Presbyterian Church in the United States ( PCUS ).

The PCUS had to agree to this limit on eligibility as a condition of union, due to the so-called " Northern Presbyterians " being by far the majority numerically.

Conservatives argued that church activity on behalf of racial desegregation and voting rights constituted a violation of the doctrine of " the spirituality of the church ," a late-19th century principle developed by PCUS theologians that declared that social reform and political participation were duties or pursuits to be taken up by individuals, not church courts.

The Seminary was incorporated under the laws of the State of South Carolina under the name James Henley Thornwell Theological Seminary, but the use of this name was protested by officials of the PCUS ’ s Thornwell Orphanage in nearby Clinton, SC and, as a result, the Steering Committee changed the name of the institution to Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

Joseph R. Wilson served as the first permanent clerk of the southern church's General Assembly, was Stated Clerk from 1865 – 1898 and was Moderator of the PCUS General Assembly in 1879.

The site was once the headquarters of the PCUS, but all offices of the united PC ( USA ) were moved to Louisville, Kentucky in 1988.

The Presbyterian Church in the United States ( PCUS ) was a Protestant Christian denomination in the Southern and border states of the United States that existed from 1861 to 1983.

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