Pleading for a Reformation Vision

The Life and Selected Writings of William Childs Robinson (1897-1982).
A minister of the Presbyterian Church in the United States for more than sixty
years, William Childs Robinson's career spanned the great events of
twentieth-century history from the Great Depression to the Vietnam War and the
Civil Rights movement. These were difficult years for America and for
Protestant Christianity in America. In this book, David Calhoun tells of how
Robinson tirelessly laboured to arrest the Southern Presbyterian Church's slide
toward a liberal theological position and preserve the old Calvinism that had
marked the church from its beginning. In seminary classrooms, in pulpits across
the South and beyond, and in the courts of the church, Robinson's voice was
heard pleading for a Reformation vision" based on faithfulness to Scripture " and supported by the testimony of Reformers, English Puritans and Scottish
Covenanters.
There then follows a selection of twenty-three articles from RobinsonÆs pen
which show something of the breadth and depth of Robinson's vision. In them one
sees a man who exercised an all-round ministry as evangelist, pastor, church
historian, and theologian, equally at ease writing on such diverse subjects as
The Saviour of Sinners", "Under His Wings", "The Theological Emphases of the " Old Columbia Seminary, and "The Trinity: God in Action". Though unsuccessful " in halting the church's decline into theological liberalism, Robinson's long
years of ministry influenced successive generations of students and ministers,
many of whom preserve his legacy by pleading for the same Reformation vision"."
I have often said that Dr. William Childs Robinson was the greatest " scholar I had the privilege of studying under. I believe that I took every
elective that he offered and would say that his theological influence on my
thinking was greater than that of any other teacher. I have quoted him more
than probably all of other professors combined. - D. James Kennedy"
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