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The Cumberland Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian denomination spawned by the Second Great Awakening. [3] In 2019, it had 65,087 members and 673 congregations, [2] of which 51 were located outside of the United States.
The Cumberland Presbyterian Church, founded in 1810, constituted its first Synod there on October 5. 1813. Suggs Creek Cumberland Presbyterian, First Confession of Faith of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church was adopted in 1814, Suggs Creek church founded in 1800 (Cumberland Presbyterian)
Colonial St. Georges Presbyterian Church: 1844 built ... Greensburg Cumberland Presbyterian Church: 1876 built 1985 NRHP-listed Hodgenville Ave. and N. 1st St.
The family tree of American Presbyterianism, 1706–1983. Courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA, and updated.. Presbyterianism has had a presence in the United States since colonial times and has exerted an important influence over broader American religion and culture.
The church was formed after African-American delegates to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church's May 1869 General Assembly asked for assistance in organizing a separate body for African Americans, allowing them to become more independent and self-reliant, develop their own clergy and other leaders, and maintain their own church buildings, all with financial support from the parent denomination.
The 1903 revision of the Westminster Confession eventually led a large number of congregations from the Arminian–leaning Cumberland Presbyterian Church to reunite with the PCUSA in 1906. [61] While overwhelmingly approved, the reunion caused controversy within the PCUSA due to concerns over doctrinal compatibility and racial segregation in ...
The Cumberland Presbytery existed from 1802 to 1806 as a presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, a predecessor to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The presbytery was strongly influenced by the Second Great Awakening and has an important place within the history of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
The History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 4th ed. Nashville: Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1899. McGee, John. "Letter to the Rev. T. L. Douglass." The Methodist Magazine, 4, 1821: 189–191. McGready, James. The Posthumous Works of the Reverend and Pious James M'Gready, Late Minister of the Gospel in Henderson, KY.