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Chalmers on Church Establishments, Part 4
Some Closing Observations & Questions
Now that we have completed an overview of Chalmers’ Lectures on the Establishment and Extension of National Churches (1838), I’d like to make a number of observations and raise some questions. I’ll start with general ones and then cover some specifics by subject.
So first, some observations [...]

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Chalmers on Church Establishments, Part 3
Further Considerations on Establishments
In Lectures 4 through 6 of his Lectures on the Establishment and Extension of National Churches, Chalmers treats some related and pertinent issues. We will continue our survey of these lectures here and close in the final installment with some observations on the whole.
Lecture 4, treating the [...]

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Chalmers on Church Establishments, Part 2
The Foundations of Church Establishments
[Note. For those interested in reading this work firsthand, an edition can be found online on GoogleBooks here.]
Turning now to the lectures themselves, we begin with an overview of the first three of six, which lay the foundation work of Chalmers’ thought on the warrant and [...]

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