Journal: Westminster Theological Journal
Volume: WTJ 07:2 (May 1945)
Article: American Calvinism Speaks—II
Author: Leslie W. Sloat

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American Calvinism Speaks—II

Leslie W. Sloat

THE real successor to the old Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review was not the journal which appeared under the name, The Princeton Review, in 1878, about which we spoke briefly at the close of our previous article,1 but another journal which appeared in 1880 under the title, The Presbyterian Review, with Dr. Archibald A. Hodge, son of Charles Hodge, and Professor Charles A. Briggs as joint managing editors.

An editorial in the first number of this new Review states the ideas and aims which led to its appearance. “There has been for some time”, we read, “a conviction, constantly widening and deepening, that a Review is needed that will adequately represent the theology and life of the Presbyterian Church. This need has been felt all the more that in former years our Church derived so much strength and advantage from the Reviews so ably conducted by Drs. Charles Hodge, Albert Barnes, Henry B. Smith, and others. Two years ago, the Presbyterian Quarterly and Princeton Review.. . was sold out by the proprietors and editors, and The Princeton Review appeared in its place, devoting itself chiefly to Philosophy, Science, and Belles-Lettres, and presenting an array of scholarship and talent unprecedented in the history of periodical literature. Yet this very fact called the more attention to its defects in those very respects that made the older Reviews so important to the Presbyterian Church” (The Presbyterian Review, Vol. I, 1880, p. 3).

This reference to the array of scholarship of the new Princeton Review was not without considerable justification. An examination of the journal covering the six years of its appearance (1878–1883) reveals among its list of eminent contributors President James McCosh of Princeton College who wrote on

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philosophy; President Noah Porter of Yale College; Principal J. W. Dawson of McGill University, Montreal, who wrote a number of articles on various phases of evolution; Professor George P. Fisher of Yale who provided nine articles including a series on the historical evidences of Christianity; and Professor William G. Sumner, also of Yale. Others included in the list were President Killen of the Presbyterian College in Belfast; Principal Shairp of the University of St. Andrews; Principal Grant and Professor Calderwood of the University of Edinburgh; Canon Rawlinson and Professor Thorold Rogers of Oxford; Professor Wharton of Cambridge; and Professors Bernhard Weiss of Berlin and Luigi Ferri of Rome.

There were, of course, names more familiar to us, chiefly Lyman B. Atwater, Franci...

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