RPTS Press Bicentennial Series
In celebration of the bicentennial of RPTS in 2010, each month we will make available here a digital copy of an older book from our Library (most off the shelves of our Rare Books Room!) that are no longer in print, each highlighting doctrinal, pastoral, and evangelical emphases of the Seminary's denomination, the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America. Most of these books are by people who served the RPCNA in their ministry and life. If you are interested in purchasing a copy of any of these scanned books from the RPTS Press Bicentennial Series printed form, please contact Grant Van Leuven (412-731-8690, Ext. 108).
Thanks to RPTS Librarian, Tom Reid, and John Mitchell and Ralph Joseph with the RP Historical Archives (housed on the RPTS campus) for their work on making these documents available!
Featured Month: FEBRUARY
Negro Slavery Unjustifiable: A Discourse (1802), Alexander McLeod.
This booklet was instrumental in the RPCNA being the second denomination in the United States to ban slave owners from membership during a time when the nation held it to be a constitutional right.
Watch the 27-minute documentary video above which features an introduction and narration by Vince Sims, reporter and anchor for Channel 11 News (Pittsburgh’s NBC Affiliate). RPTS first-year Master of Theological Studies student, Alisha McCombs, sang Negro spirituals for background music. The dramatic reading of excerpts from McLeod’s work was done by RPTS 2006 alum, Andrew Cooper, who also is a D.Min. student at the Seminary and serves as church and student relations specialist and adjunct professor of church history teaching the Black Church History course.
Click here to go to the link on Vimeo to embed this video in full on your website or blog to help promote this project.
Click here to go to our 10-minute YouTube Trailer of this video that you can use to embed on your website or blog and help promote this project.
To order a DVD of this video, please contact Grant Van Leuven at 412-731-8690, ext. 108.
Past Months.
January:
Messiah, Governor of the Nations of the Earth: A Discourse (1804 Version, Missing Last Two Pages).
Full 1992 Reprint Version By Gordon J. Keddie (RPTS '1980) Note: Rev. Keddie plans to publish a collection of M'Leod's writings.
- Alexander M'Leod, A. M.
Pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian Congregation in the City of New York.
One of the founding Superintendents of RPTS.
Glasgow: Stephen Young, 1804.
February:
Negro Slavery Unjustifiable: A Discourse (1802), Alexander McLeod.
This booklet was instrumental in the RPCNA being the second denomination in the United States to ban slave owners from membership during a time when the nation held it to be a constitutional right.
Watch the 27-minute documentary video above which features an introduction and narration by Vince Sims, reporter and anchor for Channel 11 News (Pittsburgh’s NBC Affiliate). RPTS first-year Master of Theological Studies student, Alisha McCombs, sang Negro spirituals for background music. The dramatic reading of excerpts from McLeod’s work was done by RPTS 2006 alum, Andrew Cooper, who also is a D.Min. student at the Seminary and serves as church and student relations specialist and adjunct professor of church history teaching the Black Church History course.
Click here to go to the link on Vimeo to embed this video in full on your website or blog to help promote this project.
Click here to go to our 10-minute YouTube Trailer of this video that you can use to embed on your website or blog and help promote this project.
To order a DVD of this video, please contact Grant Van Leuven at 412-731-8690, ext. 108.
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