Mercersburg Liturgy
Primary Sources:
The Book of Worship for the Reformed Church in the United States (Philadelphia: The Publication and Sunday School Board of the Reformed Church in the United States, 1926).
Henry Harbaugh, “Jesus, I Live to Thee” (1850) <http://www.hymnary.org/text/jesus_i_live_to_thee> accessed 17 March 2017.
A Liturgy or Order of Christian Worship, prepared and published by the direction and for the use of the German Reformed Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1857).
Nevin, John Williamson, The Liturgical Question: with Reference To The Provisional Liturgy of the German Reformed Church (Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1862).
_____, Vindication of the Revised Liturgy, Historical and Theological (Philadelphia: JAS. B. Rodgers, 1867) in Catholic and Reformed: Selected Theological Writings of John Williamson Nevin, ed. Charles Yrigoyen, Jr. and George H. Bricker (Pittsburgh: Pickwick Press, 1978).
Order of Worship for the Reformed Church in the United States (Philadelphia: The Publication and Sunday School Board of the Reformed Church in the United States, 1866)
Secondary Sources:
Maxwell, Jack Martin, Worship and Reformed Theology: The Liturgical Lessons of Mercersburg (Pittsburgh: Pickwick Press, 1976).
Mitchell, Nathan D., Church, Eucharist, and Liturgical Reform at Mercersburg, 1843-57 (PhD Dissertation University of Notre Dame, 1978).
Westermeyer, Paul, What Shall We Sing in a Foreign Land? Theology and Cultic Song in the German Reformed and Lutheran Churches of Pennsylvania, 1830-1900 (PhD Dissertation University of Chicago, 1978).
Mercersburg Theology
Primary Sources:
The Heidelberg Catechism: A New Translation for the Twenty-first Century, translated by Lee C. Barrett III with an Introduction (Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2007).
Nevin, John Williamson, Address on Sacred Music; Delivered At the Anniversary of the Handel and Hastings Society, In the Theological Seminary, Princeton, N.J. Dec 5th, 1827 (Princeton, D.A. Borrenstein, 1827).
_____, Antichrist: Or, The Spirit of Sect and Schism. (New York: J. S. Taylor, 1848) available more recently in an edition by Augustine Thompson (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock).
_____, The Anxious Bench, 2nd ed. (Chambersburg: Publication Office of the German Reformed Church, 1844) available more recently in an edition by Augustine Thompson (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock).
_____, “Catholic Unity,” in Philip Schaff, The Principle of Protestantism as Related to the Present State of the Church (Chambersburg, PA: Publication Office of the German Reformed Church, 1845) available more recently in an edition by Augustine Thompson (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock).
_____, "The Doctrine of the Reformed Church on the Lord’s Supper" in Mercersburg Review, September, 1850. vol. 2 no. 5 in The Mercersburg Theology Study Series, vol. 1 (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2012).
_____, “Letter to Dr. Henry Harbaugh” in Catholic and Reformed: Selected Theological Writings of John Williamson Nevin, ed. Charles Yrigoyen and George H. Bricker (Pittsburgh: The Pickwick Press, 1978) pp. 405-411.
_____, My Own Life: The Earlier Years (1870) in the Papers of the Eastern Chapter, Historical Society of the Evangelical and Reformed Church, no. 1 (Lancaster, 1964).
_____, The Mystical Presence (Philadelphia: King and Baird, 1846) in The Mercersburg Theology Study Series, vol. 1 (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2012).
Nichols, James Hastings, The Mercersburg Theology (New York:Oxford University Press, 1966). [note: this is a collection of various writings of Nevin and Schaff, with editorial introductions by Nichols.]
Schaff, Philip, The Principle of Protestantism as Related to the Present State of the Church (Chambersburg, PA: Publication Office of the German Reformed Church, 1845)
Secondary Sources:
DeBie, Linden J., Speculative Theology and Common-Sense Religion: Mercersburg and the Conservative Roots of American Religion (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2008).
DiPuccio, William, The Interior Sense of Scripture: The Sacred Hermeneutics of John W. Nevin vol. 14 in Studies in American Hermeneutics (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1998).
Harbaugh, Henry, The Fathers of the German Reformed Church ().
Hart, D.G., John Williamson Nevin: High-Church Calvinist (Phillipsburg: P&R Publishing, 2005).
Plummer, Kenneth Moses, The Theology of John Williamson Nevin in the Mercersburg Period, 1840-1852 (PhD Dissertation, 1958).
Thompson, Daniel Bard, An Historical Reconstruction of Melanchthonianism and the German Reformed Church, based upon confessional and liturgical evidence (PhD Dissertation, 1954).
Additional Resources
Mercersburg Research Fellowship, <http://mercersburgtheology.org/>
Mercersburg Society homepage, <http://mercersburgsociety.org/>.
Schaff, Philip, The Friendship of Calvin and Melanchthon (Reprinted from vol. 4, American Society of Church History).