1818 KENTUCKY PRESBYTERIAN. Radical Presbyterian on Covenant of Grace. Calvinism and Federal Theology

James M'Chord [1785 –1820] was an important and rather controversial Kentucky Presbyterian divine. After graduating Transylvania University and the Associate Reformed Theological Seminary M’Chord he was ordained [1809] and after local ministry founded Second Presbyterian Church in Lexington [1813]. He served as its pastor until 1819. During his pastorate, he also taught and was a member of the Board of Trustees at Transylvania through 1819, when he was elected to serve as the first president of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. He died unexpectedly before formally taking the position. He was always controversial. He was deeply Evangelical in a time when Federal theology and a very sturdy emphasis on election and reprobation was standard among Kentucky Presbyterians. We might think of him as being in the vein of Nathanael Taylor of the New Haven School of Theology. His ordination was revoked by the West Lexington Presbytery accepted him.  The present work engages on the controversy