Editor’s note: This treatise first was published as “An interaction with L. Roy Taylor’s ‘The Validity of a Call’ (in respect to the PCA’s

  Editor’s note: This essay first was published as “The jure divino basis for parity between teaching elders and ruling elders,” on September 18, 2020,

Saint Andrew’s Chapel’s intent to unite with the Presbyterian Church in America, formally ratified Sunday, June 4, 2023, is the quintessential case in point of an unpresbyterated church submitting in obedience to jus divinum: divine law.

Fundamentals of Presbyterianism, part 5 My heart doth overflow;A noble theme I sing.My tongue’s a skillful writer’s penTo speak about the King.More fair than sons

Fundamentals of Presbyterianism, part 4 Discipline is an often-unsavory yet sometimes-necessary practice of the church of Christ. To err is human. To err is institutional.

Fundamentals of Presbyterianism, part 3 Alongside the top-down, poimenical (shepherding) authority of Presbyterian governance, which is elders within graded church courts, stands the other fundamental

Fundamentals of Presbyterianism, part 2 Presbyterian governance structure is multilevel, and its top-down component is the authority of those in Christ’s church who hold special

Fundamentals of Presbyterianism, part 1 In Christian theology, ecclesiology is the study of the church, the origins of Christianity, the church’s relationship to Jesus Christ,