(short: PC(USA)). The Special Committee on a Brief Contemporary Statement of Faith began preparing the Confession of 1967 in 1958; the document was first published to the Presbyterian Church's General Assembly in 1965. The committee was chaired by Edward Dowey, Jr., professor at Princeton ...
In 1788 the PCUSA adopted the following as Chapter 23 § 3.Civil magistrates may not assume to themselves the administration of the Word and Sacraments;a or the power of the keys of the kingdom of heaven;b or, in the least, interfere in matters of faith.c Yet, as nursing fathers, ...