College of New Jersey
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- Christianity
- St. Augustine
- The Reformation
- Five Solas
- Synod of Dort
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| Theology |
- Five Points (TULIP)
- Covenant theology
- Regulative principle
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| Documents |
- Calvin's Institutes
- Geneva Bible
- Three Forms of Unity
- Westminster Standards
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| Influences |
- Martin Bucer
- Peter Martyr Vermigli
- Heinrich Bullinger
- John Calvin
- John Knox
- Theodore Beza
- Francis Turretin
- Jonathan Edwards
- Charles Hodge
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Princeton University was founded at Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1746 as the College of New Jersey.
New Light Presbyterians founded the College of New Jersey, later Princeton University, in 1746 in order to train ministers dedicated to their views. The college was the educational and religious capital of Scotch-Irish America. By 1808, loss of confidence in the college within the Presbyterian Church led to the establishment in 1812 of the separate Princeton Theological Seminary, but deep Presbyterian influence at the college continued through the 1910s. The Province of New Jersey granted a charter on October 22, 1746 for “the Education of Youth in the Learned Languages and in the Liberal Arts and Sciences”. The charter was unique in the colonies, for it specified that “any Person of any religious Denomination whatsoever” might attend. The College’s enrollment totaled 10 young men, who met for classes in the Reverend Jonathan Dickinson’s parlor in Elizabeth. Dickinson soon died and was replaced by Aaron Burr, Sr., pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Newark, New Jersey. The College moved to Newark in the fall of 1747, where in 1748 a class of six men became the first to graduate.