A well-researched discussion of holding to confessions as guides.

* Essays and Contributors (WTS contributors in bold):Introduction: On the Hermeneutics of Subscription - David W. Hall

* Biblical and Pastoral Basis for Creeds and Confessions - Robert S. Rayburn

* Confessional Subscription Among the Sixteenth Century Reformers - Peter A. Lillback

* Subscription in the Dutch Reformed Tradition - W. Robert Godfrey

* Owning the Confession: Subscription in the Scottish Presbyterian Tradition - J. Ligon Duncan

* The Context for the Adopting Act - Luder G. Whitlock, Jr.

* The Constitutional History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America - Charles Hodge

* Subscription to the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms - George W. Knight III

* The Samuel Hemphill Heresy Case (1735) and the Historic Method of Subscribing to the Westminster Standards - William S. Barker

* The Doctrinal Content of the Confessions - Robert L. Dabney

* The Case for Full Subscription - Morton H. Smith

* A Peaceable Plea about Subscription: Toward Avoiding Future Divisions - James E. Urish

* "Honest Subscription": Old Princeton Seminary and Subscription to the Westminster Standards - David B. Calhoun

* Creed Subscription in the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - John Murray

* Re-examining the Re-examiners of the Adoption Act - David W. Hall

* The Church's Power: Its Relation to Subscription - T. David Gordon

* Confidence in Our Brethren: Creedal Subscription in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church - John R. Muether

* Practical Benefits and Dangers of Subscriptions - L. Roy Taylor * Bibliography - James E. Urish & David W. Hall

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"an unparalleled integration of scholarship and practical insight" - Peter A. Lilliback