USED COPIES

Companion volume (in the Covenant Life Curriculum) to Good News on the Frontier. Thompson presents the entire history of the Christian Church condensed into a volume designed for Sunday school study. The book was later reprinted as a stand-alone volume for general reading. Our copies are 1965 originals and only a small stock remains.

Ernest Trice Thompson was one of the most important Southern Presbyterian clergymen of the Twentieth Century. A seminary professor for 42 years, he helped transform the Presbyterian Church in the United States, once the Southern Presbyterian Church mired in racism and the cult of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, into a moderate body which addressed racism and merged with The United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. in 1983 to form the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

Thompson thought the Spirituality of the Church too narrow a doctrine. An excerpt from Through the Ages: A History of the Christian Church (1965) follows:

For a generation now the Presbyterian Church in the United States has officially accepted the idea that the gospel does have implications for the whole of life. The task of the present generation will be able to find ways in which this concept can be accepted by the church membership as a whole, particularly our lay people, the People of God, who alone can translate the principle into practical reality. Only so can we be true to our Calvinistic, and also our Christian, heritage. And so can we hope, in a measure, to fulfill our true spiritual mission.