In a message dated Tue, 13 Feb 2001 8:08:17 AM Eastern Standard Time, Inge Frette <inge.frette@geologica.no> writes:
<< Hello Jack and other,
can someone help a non-American here.
Jack writes that PCA is a "conservate denomination".
I thought that PCA was a mainline denomination of a liberal type.
Am I mixing two denominations here ?
And - which denomination is Princeton Seminary affiliated with ?
>>
Adding to what Joel Duff said:
The PCA (Presbyterian Church in America) is a quite conservative denomination. The "mainline" body is the PCUSA, which leans liberal (though not as much as many other "mainline" denominations in the US), but still has a number of churches that are fairly conservative and evangelical (such as the one I am a member of, part of a movement in the denomination called "Presbyterians for Renewal").
My understanding is that the two main issues that caused the PCA to separate were its view of Scripture (they take a more fundamentalist view, placing great importance on the "inerrancy" doctrine) and its view that women should not be pastors or elders.
Allan Harvey, steamdoc@aol.com
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