The Covenant Life Curriculum
| Introduced in the early 1960s, the Covenant Life Curriculum
proved to be a point of division within the southern Presbyterian Church
and may arguably have been a factor leading to the eventual formation
of the Presbyterian Church in America in 1973. Biblically conservative
Presbyterians criticized the curriculum as heavily informed by the neo-orthodoxy
of Barth and Brunner. For a time it became the authorized curriculum of
five denominations: the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church, the Moravian Church in America, the Presbyterian
Church in the United States and the Reformed Church in America. Materials
issued under the Covenant Life name were printed by the Covenant Life
Press, Richmond, VA. These materials are available to researchers at the Center, but can not be checked out, nor do we have other copies available for sale or exchange. |
The Historical Center's holdings include the following
twenty-one titles from the Curriculum. See "Warfield," our online library catalog, for further details on each title. |
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| anonymous | Education for Covenant Living, 1962, 6th & 7th printings [see Box 422 for 1st edition copy] | ||||
| Beach, Waldo | The Christian Life, 1966, 1st edition; Teacher's Book, 1967 | ||||
| Benfield, William A., Jr. | Youth Entering Into Covenant - For Parents, 1966, 3rd printing | ||||
| Cogswell, James A. | Response: The Church in Mission to a World in Crisis, 1971, 1st edition | ||||
| Dendy, Marshall C. | A Study of the Catechism: The Westminster Shorter Catechism for Families, 1966, 1st edition | ||||
| Gettys, Joseph M. | Living the Gospel: A Study of I Peter, 1970, 1st edition | ||||
| Guthrie, Shirley C., Jr. | Christian Doctrine, 1968, 1st edition; Teacher's Book, 1968 | ||||
| Kennedy, William Bean | Into Covenant Life, Volumes 1 & 2, 1963, 2nd & 5th printings respectively; Teacher's Book, 1963, 2nd printing | ||||
| King, Ray A. | A History of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, 1966, 1st edition | ||||
| Kraemer, Charles E.S. | Planning for the Covenant Life Curriculum in a Local Church, 1962, 1st edition | ||||
| Lubbers, Elaine | Families Within the Family, 1963, 2nd printing | ||||
| McCarter, Neely Dixon | Hear the Word of the Lord, 1964, 1st edition, [heavily annotated by Wm. A. McIlwaine] | ||||
| McMichael, Jack B. | The School of the Church, 1967, 5th printing | ||||
| Meeks, Wayne A. | Go from Your Father's House, 1964, 1st edition, [heavily annotated by Wm. A. McIlwaine] | ||||
| Perkins, Richard F. | The Image of a Christian Family, 1964, 1st edition | ||||
| Ramsey, William M. | The Meaning of Jesus Christ, 1964, 1st edition; Leader's Guide, 1964, 1st edition | ||||
| Rhodes, Arnold B. | The Mighty Acts of God, 1964, 1st edition | ||||
| Rogers, Isabel | In Response to God, 1969, 1st edition | ||||
| Sprunt, James, et. al. | From Bondage to Freedom: God's Varied Voices, 1967, 1st edition; Teacher's Book, 1967 | ||||
| Thompson, Ernest T. | Through the Ages: A History of the Christian Church, 1965, 1st edition; Teacher's Book, 1965 | ||||
| Williamson, Lamar, Jr. | God's Work of Art: Images of the Church in Ephesians, 1971, 1st edition | ||||