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The Presbyterian Church in the United States of America has its roots in the territory of the Synod of the Trinity, which was founded as the Synod of Philadelphia in 1717 following the division of the Presbytery of Philadelphia into three presbyteries (Philadelphia, New Castle, and Long Island), with the synod as a superior body. [1]
The church was referred to as Pearl Mill Chapel from 1902 to 1903 and then as Second Presbyterian Church. [1] On May 16, 1921, seventy people attended a revival service and reorganized congregation as Trinity Avenue Presbyterian Church, appointing George L. Cooper as the first full-time minister. [1]
In 1965 the church refused to admit a mixed-race group to hear a sermon by Leighton Ford, a Billy Graham associate. [6] In 1973 Trinity Presbyterian left the Presbyterian Church in the United States over its growing theological liberalism and became a charter member of the Presbyterian Church in America. [7]
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Trinity Presbyterian Church may refer to: in Australia. Trinity Presbyterian Church in Camberwell, Victoria, a church associated with The Fellowship group in Australia;
In early 2005 Lusk came to pastor Reformed Heritage Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Alabama, from Auburn Avenue Presbyterian Church in Monroe, Louisiana. Peter Leithart, a Cambridge-educated theologian was a former pastor of the church. Yet Lusk's transition affected the Church's denomination, name, and liturgy. [5]
The school was founded by Trinity Presbyterian Church, an all-white church that resisted efforts for blacks to join the congregation. [4]Trinity School opened in a local church in 1970 with 200 students and 15 instructors, as Montgomery county public schools were being racially integrated.
Presbyterians trace their history to the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. The Presbyterian heritage, and much of its theology, began with the French theologian and lawyer John Calvin (1509–64), whose writings solidified much of the Reformed thinking that came before him in the form of the sermons and writings of Huldrych Zwingli.