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Life Among the Turks

By D. G. Hart | Published: May 17, 2013

I brought along to Turkey a chapter from John B. Adger’s memoir, My Life and Times. For those unfamiliar with the name, Adger was an Old School Presbyterian who taught ecclesiastical history and church polity at Columbia Seminary, and was in some way the John Williamson Nevin (as in high church Calvinist) of the Southern… Read More→

Posted in Adventures in Church History | Also tagged Armenian Orthodox, Islam, John B. Adger, Old School Presbyterianism, turkey | 1 Response

If George Washington Gets A Pass, Why Not William Ernest Hocking?

By D. G. Hart | Published: May 24, 2010

Well, one reason is that Washington was the nationâ€™s first president and the U.S. Capitol has a whole lot of hullabaloo about him as a divine-like being (see the image of Washington’s apotheosis). Hocking, by contrast, was merely a professor of philosophy at Harvard University. As positions go, teaching at Harvard is not too shabby,… Read More→