The Divine Authority Of Holy Scripture Asserted, From Its Adaptation To The Real State Of Human Nature: In Eight Sermons (1819)
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Fetich in Theology: Or, Doctrinalism Twin to Ritualism
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Raymond Harrison hadn't seen his childhood friend Daniel Thompson in over fifteen years. When he suddenly found himself seated next to Daniel over lunch, he could hardly believe his eyes. Less than a week later Raymond was at the County Morgue asked to identify his friend's body who had been brutally murdered in the parking lot of a local motel. The murder of his friend brings changes to Raymond's routine life in ways he could never have imagined. Questioning by local police was expected, but the introduction of the FBI wasn't. Was the repeated questioning a sign that Raymond was being considered a suspect in Daniel's murder? Returning to a Georgia hometown to attend a funeral, facing grieving parents and other childhood friends whose paths had changes significantly over the years stirred emotions he hadn't planned. While attending his friend's funeral, Raymond is given a FedEx package sent to him by his now murdered friend. The contents of the package leads Raymond and others on a journey that Daniel Thompson had planned to help solve a crime with international implications.
John Miller was an American Presbyterian clergyman.
Background
John Miller was the son of Rev. Samuel and Sarah (Sergeant) Miller. He was born on April 6, 1819, at Princeton, New Jersey. On his father's side, his ancestry went back to John Miller, a native of Scotland, who came to America in 1710 and married Mary Bass, great-grand-daughter of John and Priscilla Alden. It included a number of scholarly clergymen. On his mother's side, he was descended from a line of patriots, his maternal grandfather being Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant, a member of the Continental Congress and attorney-general of Pennsylvania. His father was the renowned first professor of church history at Princeton Theological Seminary. Consequently, the son was brought up in surroundings of earnest Christian piety, yet with intimate knowledge of the many forms in which that piety has been expressed through the ages.
Education
Miller secured his preparatory education at the Edgehill Boarding School, Princeton, and graduated from Princeton College in 1836. For a year, he served with ability as an assistant to Prof. Joseph Henry in preparation for becoming a professor of natural philosophy. In later years, he was the first person to urge the creation at Princeton of a research university, thereby initiating a movement out of which has grown the Princeton Graduate College. As the result of his conversion at a revival, he decided to go into the ministry and in 1838 entered Princeton Theological Seminary, graduating in 1841, but remaining another year for special study.
Career
On October 30, 1843, Miller was ordained by the Presbytery of Baltimore and served for five years as pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Frederick, Md. From 1850 to 1855, he was in charge of the West Arch Street Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, and then for eight years, he supplied churches in the Valley of Virginia while he devoted himself to study and writing, serving also in 1861-62, as captain of an artillery and chaplain in the Confederate army. From 1863 to 1871, he was pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Petersburg, Virginia. In the latter year, he took up his residence in Princeton, where he remained the rest of his life. As the result of his views on immortality, the human nature of Christ, and the nature of the Godhead which he expressed in Questions Awakened by the Bible (1877), he was suspended by the Presbytery of New Brunswick and the synod of New Jersey, and after the General Assembly refused to sustain an appeal he withdrew from the Presbyterian Church (1877). His tombstone in the cemetery at Princeton is a recumbent cross made of great blocks of stone on each of which is chiseled one article of his creed, carefully supported by a subsidiary statement.
Achievements
In 1880, Miller built at Princeton an independent church, and later established several mission stations in connection with it, of which he served as pastor till his death in 1895. In 1893, he was received into the ministry of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, giving to it his Princeton church and its missions. This denomination united with the Presbyterian Church in 1906, thus by implication restoring Miller to good standing in the latter.
Miller was a prolific writer and in his works he taught the following doctrines: (1) that although Jesus Christ was incorrupt, yet, having the sin of Adam imputed to him, he needed for salvation a ransom as all sinners do even that of his own death on the cross; (2) that Jesus Christ and Jehovah are one person, and the Godhead is not a Trinity; (3) that Jesus Christ has two consciousnesses one omniscient and the other ignorant, and two wills one sovereign and one dependent, although they interact harmoniously in the execution of his work as one redeemer; (4) that God saves and damns not for his own glory, but for the sake of righteousness why one sinner should be selected to accept salvation in Christ and be saved rather than another being left a mystery when viewed as an act of God, but as the result of the gradual improvement in the moral character of the sinner when viewed as an act of man; (5) that every soul goes out of existence between death and the return of Christ to judge the world, when misery and happiness will be proportioned to the characters of the souls. These doctrines he upheld by a great array of Biblical proof-texts, at times as translated by himself; by references to the great symbols of the Reformed faith of the Presbyterian Church, to which symbols he considered himself essentially loyal; and by a careful exposition of the contradiction inherent in the Reformed faith as set forth in the Systematic Theology of Dr. Charles Hodge, then professor of systematic theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, the most authoritative exposition of that faith in the Presbyterian Church at the time. Unfortunately, Miller was not aware of the contradictions inherent in his own doctrines and often wrote in a style made obscure by condensations and by passion.
Personality
Miller's defense at the Assembly was considered a masterpiece of argument and eloquence and he succeeded in retaining the personal friendship of his stanchest theological opponents because of the humility of his character and benevolence of his life.
Connections
Miller was twice married: first, September 24, 1844, to Margaret Benedict, who died September 5, 1852; and second, November 3, 1856, to Sally Campbell Preston McDowell, daughter of James McDowell, governor of Virginia.
