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Hobbit Hole XI: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1155177/posts |
Posted on 06/01/2004 9:35:59 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Um... since I think they're all offshoots from the PCUSA, which was formed by the merge of two other denominations, I'd say they're all equally 'related'. The PCA and OPC are probably closest in terms of doctrine and government.
Hobbit Hole X
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| Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | Mon | Tot | Avg |
| 558 | 304 | 286 | 361 | 261 | 200 | 377 | 2347 | 335 |
| Top Ten | ||||
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| Rank | Poster | No. of Posts |
Average Posts/Day |
Percent of Weekly Posts |
| 1. | Wneighbor | 340 | 49 | 14.49% |
| 2. | Fedora | 265 | 38 | 11.29% |
| 3. | HairOfTheDog | 190 | 27 | 8.10% |
| 4. | Corin Stormhands | 187 | 27 | 7.97% |
| 5. | JenB | 185 | 26 | 7.88% |
| 6. | RosieCotton | 155 | 22 | 6.60% |
| 7. | Ramius | 138 | 20 | 5.88% |
| 8. | Bear_in_RoseBear | 132 | 19 | 5.62% |
| 9. | Overtaxed | 130 | 19 | 5.54% |
| 10. | RMDupree | 77 | 11 | 3.28% |
| Totals | 1799 | 257 | 76.65% | |
Previous Weeks:
Week 1.
Normally, only people who make the Top Ten during the week will receive this ping. If you want to be added to or removed from my ping list, send me FReepmail!
"Wow... long, long ago when I was in confirmation class, we were taught there were only two major divisions... the northern and the southern (I forget which organization was which) on account of the Civil War."
From what I've read the Civil War as you'd expect split a lot of religious groups along north/south lines, and meanwhile the secular intellectual currents of the 19th century tended to find homes in the Ivy League and spread from there throughout the northern urban churches. So as a northerner I'm always happy to hear there are still some conservative northern churches left!
"Really? I thought you hobnobbed with George Washington in primary school."
When my Mom and I would get to teasing each other about our ages I used to ask her questions like, "So, what was coming over on the Mayflower really like?" :)
Man, if we hadn't lost power, I'd be number 4 at least.
"heh heh heh...Jen, you outta take him over "there"..."
I'm afraid to ask. . . :) Where's "there"? :)
Ready, or not, they're coming!
Sounds like Saturday is going to be a lovely day. I wish you and ecurbh all the best! I'll be a watchin on the Hobbitcam!
Well, we could tell you. But then we'd have to baptize you...
Or burn him at the stake.
Not yet.... their plane leaves in 2 hours... I just told ecurbh to behave for ~that~ long or I'll call ;~D
Depends on which denomination is in control on whatever thread you lead him into, I suppose...
Not on the first date, fercryinoutloud!
When was the merger, about? It sounds like this was a bit later than the period I'm familiar with. The paper I wrote touched on the influence in the US in the late 18th century of the controversy over the Scotch Independency movement--here's a little info:
Presbyterianism Established, Meeting Of The Westminster Assembly
Nevertheless, amid all this apparent prevalence of Presbyterianism, there was a stubborn tradition in England of another set of antiprelatic views, long stigmatized by the nickname of Brownism, but known latterly as Independency or Congregationalism.
I was wondering if maybe that played a role in any of the divisions you mentioned, but it sounds like maybe that was a little earlier than you're talking about.
It's amusing to me to see the squabbles over there... the only person I discuss theology with is Catholic, and we never argue the way the people on FR do.
Yeah, I don't know much about the history of Presbyterians between John Knox and, oh, the 1980s.
"Or burn him at the stake."
But I'm not a Witch! (says in Monty Python voice. . .)
Yes, but that won't matter to some over there. You probably float if we put you in water, right?
ROFL! Me neither :) I like learning, though. I like studying the English Reformation and Colonial period. This book is a really good introduction:
Vernon Louis Parrington, The Colonial Mind, 1620-1800
"It's amusing to me to see the squabbles over there... the only person I discuss theology with is Catholic, and we never argue the way the people on FR do."
I've done my best to avoid those threads. But the other day I posted on something I thought was an unrelated thread and now I seem to have been added to somebody's ping list without being asked. Sigh. . .
"Yes, but that won't matter to some over there. You probably float if we put you in water, right?"
No! My specific gravity is denser than water--I'll drown! I'm not a witch--really I'm not!
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