{"product_id":"letters-from-america","title":"Letters from America","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Dutch Reformed Perspective on the Struggle for Orthodoxy in American Presbyterianism (1935-1940)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten by Cornelius Van Til, Edited and Translated by Daniel J. Ragusa\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBetween 1935 and 1940, Cornelius Van Til (1895–1987) wrote twenty-four letters from America for the Dutch periodical De Reformatie at the invitation of its editor Professor Klaas Schilder (1890–1952). Daniel Ragusa’s translation presents these letters in English for the first time. Letters from America opens a window into a critical moment in Reformed Christian church history—when orthodox and confessional Presbyterianism in America was under siege from both modernism and the rising influence of Barthianism, which Van Til labeled “the new modernism.” Daniel Ragusa introduces these letters by situating them within the broader relationship between the Dutch Reformed Christians in the Netherlands and the orthodox Presbyterians in America—a relationship that reaches back to the seventeenth century. Written in the heat of theological conflict, Van Til’s wartime-like correspondences offer a firsthand account of the spiritual and ecclesiastical upheavals of the era. Through Van Til’s eyes, fixed steadfastly on his risen and reigning Lord, readers witness pivotal moments in American Presbyterian history, among them J. Gresham Machen’s trial, deposition, and sudden death; the founding of Westminster Theological Seminary and the evangelistic work of its graduates; and the formation of the Presbyterian Church of America and its subsequent renaming as the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Far more than museum pieces, these eye-witness letters bring to life a pivotal chapter in the defense and development of the Reformed Christian faith that helps us to make sense of our present ecclesiastical and theological landscape.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHardcover with jacket, 184 pages, notes, name and subject index\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reformed Fellowship","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46825342140450,"sku":"13b","price":42.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0003\/0697\/0688\/files\/LettersfromAmerica.jpg?v=1788394459","url":"https:\/\/reformedchristianbooks.com\/products\/letters-from-america","provider":"Vanderheide's Reformed Christian Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}