Pressing Toward the Mark
Essays Commemorating Fifty Years of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church
- Edited by Charles G. Dennison & Richard C. Gamble
- Published by the Committee for the Historian of the OPC
- 489 pages
- List price: $11.95, softback
- Special sale price: $5.00
- ISBN: 0-934688-36-2
- Prices do not include shipping and handling
Pressing Toward the Mark is an offering of thanksgiving to God for the Orthodox Presbyterian Church on her fiftieth birthday. Contributors include lay persons, ruling elders, scholars, missionaries, and pastors who belong to a variety of Presbyterian and Reformed churches. Despite the diversity of background, opinion, and role in the church, each writer has seasoned his "offering" with zeal for the body of Christ and has added his voice to the celebration of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church's stand for twentieth-century Protestant orthodoxy.
The objective in gathering these articles has not been the presentation of a single slant on things. In keeping with the importance of the celebration, this collection of essays is intended to touch the broad strokes of Presbyterianism and reflect something of its convictions and struggles, especially as they have relevance to the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. The significance of the covenant, the number of ecclesiastical offices, the meaning of the Sabbath, Calvin's doctrine of the church, Presbyterian versus Reformed polity, the nature of subscription, Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening, the virtues and failures of the Old School and New School Presbyterians—all these matters and others are reviewed. Added to them are questions of special interest to the Orthodox Presbyterian Church—questions like:
- What really happened in 1936?
- What were Machen's essential theological convictions?
- Why the division of 1937 and the severe strains of the forties?
- What is the long-term place of Van Tillian apologetics in the church?
- How unique as a Presbyterian body is the Orthodox Presbyterian Church?
This book is offered in the interest of "pressing toward the mark." It rehearses the already past, honors the present gains, and prods us to press toward the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus (Phil. 3:14).
To order, contact the Committee for the Historian, Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Box P, Willow Grove, PA 19090-0920.
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