Presbyterian Church in the United States of America information
Historical Presbyterian organization
For other entities with similar names, see American Presbyterian Church.
Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
Seal of the General Assembly of PCUSA
Classification
Protestant
Orientation
Mainline Reformed
Polity
Presbyterian polity
Associations
Plan of Union with the Congregational churches of New England (1801–1837)
United Foreign and Domestic Missionary Societies (with the Reformed Church in America and the Associate Reformed Church, 1817–1826)
American Home Missionary Society (1826)
Federal Council of Churches (1908)
Interchurch World Movement (1918–1920)
United Andean Indian Mission (1946)
Origin
1789 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Branched from
Church of Scotland and Synod of Ulster
Separations
Springfield Presbytery (1803)
Cumberland Presbyterian Church (1810, reunited in part 1906)
New School Presbyterians (1838; reunited 1869)
Presbyterian Church in the United States (1861)
Orthodox Presbyterian Church (1936)
Merged into
United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (1958)
Congregations
8,351 in 1957
Members
2.8 million in 1957
Ministers
10,261 in 1957[1]
The Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA) was a Presbyterian denomination existing from 1789 to 1958. In that year, the PCUSA merged with the United Presbyterian Church of North America. The new church was named the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. It was a predecessor to the contemporary Presbyterian Church (USA).
The denomination originated in colonial times when members of the Church of Scotland and Presbyterians from Ireland first immigrated to America. After the American Revolution, the PCUSA was organized in Philadelphia to provide national leadership for Presbyterians in the new nation. In 1861, Presbyterians in the Southern United States split from the denomination because of disputes over slavery, politics, and theology precipitated by the American Civil War. They established the Presbyterian Church in the United States, often called the "Southern Presbyterian Church". The PCUSA, in turn, was described as the Northern Presbyterian Church. Despite the PCUSA's designation as a "Northern church", it was once again a national denomination in its later years.
Over time, traditional Calvinism played less of a role in shaping the church's doctrines and practices—it was influenced by Arminianism and revivalism early in the 19th century, liberal theology late in the 19th century, and neo-orthodoxy by the mid-20th century. The theological tensions within the denomination were played out in the Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy of the 1920s and 1930s, a conflict that led to the development of Christian fundamentalism and has historical importance to modern American evangelicalism. Conservatives dissatisfied with liberal trends left to form the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in 1936.
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