New School Presbyterian Church
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The New School was a faction within the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. that emerged around 1825. This group represented the more liberal wing of the church and eventually organized as a separate church from 1838 to 1869, when it reunited with the more conservative Old School party.1
The division within the Presbyterian Church was influenced by differing views on theological interpretation and church governance, particularly concerning the role of creeds and the powers of church courts. This schism, along with other factors like the slavery question, led to the formal split in 1837, with the New School primarily located in the North and the Old School in the South.2
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