Synopsis: Coena Mystica contains the never-before-reprinted text of
John Williamson Nevin's response to Charles Hodge's devastating
critiques of his 1846 magnum opus, The Mystical Presence. Initially
appearing in twelve issues of the little-known Weekly Messenger of
the German Reformed Church and almost entirely neglected by
historians since, Nevin's response included the full text of
Hodge's article, with his rejoinders interspersed every few pages.
These articles, in addition to providing a lively and illuminating
debate on the roots of Reformed eucharistic theology, take the
disputants into such fields as the nature of the church, the
development of doctrine, the person and work of Christ, and the
merits of German idealism. The quality of the historical argument
and theological acumen here displayed makes this exchange one of
the landmark theological controversies of the nineteenth century, a
gift to historians of the period, students of Reformed theology,
and anyone seeking to better understand the contentious legacy of
the Protestant Reformation. The present critical edition carefully
preserves the original text, while providing extensive
introductions, annotations, and bibliography to orient the modern
reader and facilitate further scholarship. The Mercersburg Theology
Study Series is an attempt to make available for the first time, in
attractive, readable, and scholarly modern editions, the key
writings of the nineteenth-century movement known as the
Mercersburg Theology. An ambitious multi-year project, this aims to
make an important contribution to the scholarly community and to
the broader reading public, who can at last be properly introduced
to this unique blend of American and European, Reformed and
Catholic theology. Endorsements: "This debate on the Lord's Supper
is by no means of narrow denominational interest only; for Hodge
and Nevin represent doctrinal and sacramental views that are
ardently defended to this day--not least in ecumenical discussions.
We thus have here a welcome and instructive addition to what is
already proving to be a useful series of carefully introduced and
edited texts." --Alan P. F. Sell, University of Wales Trinity Saint
David Author Biography: John Williamson Nevin (1803-1886) was a
leading nineteenth-century Reformed theologian. Originally trained
in the Presbyterian Church, he took up a teaching post at
Mercersburg Seminary of the German Reformed Church in 1841, and
spent the rest of his life teaching and writing in that
denomination. Charles Hodge (1797-1878) was the premier American
Presbyterian theologian of his era. Through his fifty-year tenure
at Princeton Seminary, his editorship of the Biblical Repertory and
Princeton Review, his three-volume Systematic Theology, and a host
of books and articles, he exerted a decisive influence on
conservative American Protestantism throughout the nineteenth
century and beyond. Editor: Linden J. DeBie has taught at Seton
Hall University and New Brunswick Theological Seminary. He is the
author of Speculative Theology and Commonsense Religion:
Mercersburg and the Conservative Roots of American Religion
(Pickwick, 2008), and editor of the first volume of the Mercersburg
Theology Study Series. General Editor: Brad Littlejohn has an MA in
Theology from New Saint Andrews College (2009), and MTh in
Theological Ethics from the University of Edinburgh (2010), where
he is currently completing a PhD in Theological Ethics. He is the
author of The Mercersburg Theology and the Quest for Reformed
Catholicity (Pickwick, 2009).
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