In 1982, the anticatabaptist Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Synod merged itself out of existence into the larger Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). This considerable RPCES influx strengthened the anticatabaptists within the PCA — even though the quality of its eschatological and soteriological contributions remains questionable.
Because this present writer was an anticatabaptistic orthodox Calvinian PCA Minister of the Word and Sacraments right down until his 1981 appointment as Professor of Systematic Theology at the Queensland Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, he is still particularly concerned about ongoing events in his old denomination in the USA. But quite apart from this — baptismal developments within the influential American PCA from 1982 onward, also demand that they be noted in a dissertation such as this.
