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Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA) (1054 words) |
 | Presbyterians are part of the Calvinist theological tradition, which includes an emphasis upon predestination as found in the theology of John Calvin, a sixteenth-century French theologian who believed that God elects those who are "predestined" to salvation and that this election is not influenced by human efforts. |
| Marys is one of the oldest churches in Georgia. |
| Most Presbyterian churches, in Georgia and nationally, were Old School churches, which strove to maintain the denomination's emphasis on Calvinist doctrine and to resist the New School's emphasis on such societal reform efforts as temperance and abolition. |
| Presbyterian Church: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (3652 words) |
| It is the largest Presbyterian denomination in the U.S. and was established by the 1983 merger of the former Presbyterian Church in the United States, a southern branch of American Presbyterianism, and the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, a northern branch. |
| The United Presbyterian Church of North America merged with the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. in 1958 to form the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. This sparked a period of ecumenical activism similar to the Second Vatican Council. |
| A new national headquarters was established in Louisville, Kentucky in 1988 replacing the headquarters of the United Presbyterian Church in the USA in New York City and the Presbyterian Church in the United States located in Atlanta, Georgia. |
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