Nevin’s Importance

In the series preface to John Williamson Nevin: High Church Calvinism, D.G. Hart observes that “Nevin discerned fundamental changes in American religious life that were undermining the vitality of Reformed Christianity in the United States (10).” He elaborates further that Nevin provides a “high-church” Calvinism that responds both to religious enthusiasm (think revivalism) and the growing presence of Roman Catholicism (think sacerdotalism). Professor Nevin saw the trends of popular Protestantism in the nineteenth century. Though a controversial voice in the 19th century, Nevin’s prophetic words need to be heard again and again in our own day.

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