Abstract
ABSTRACT The Reverend Joseph F. Berg was pastor of First German Reformed Church in Philadelphia from 1837 to 1852. He was a revivalist in the tradition of Charles G. Finney. In addition, he was an active participant in the Protestant crusade against the Roman Catholic Church. His anti-Catholic sermons and writings contributed to the emotional atmosphere that culminated in the Philadelphia Riots of 1844. The faculty of the German Reformed Church Seminary in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, was composed of Philip Schaff and John W. Nevin. Berg accused Schaff and Nevin of having “Romanizing Tendencies” in their writings, which resulted in heresy trials. He left the German Reformed Church to become a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church in Philadelphia. Later, he became the Professor of Polemic and Didactic Theology at the Dutch Reformed Seminary in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
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