Originally Posted By: PastorVon
There was a day in the USA when Presbyterian ministers were required to write a theological treatise in Latin as part of their trials for ordination. That expectation disappeared sometime toward the end of the 19th Century.

And also on this continent.

Originally Posted By: PastorVon
a paper on the history of the Presbyterian denomination in which I was ordained


You're a Presbyterian? For some reason I thought you were Lutheran.