Southern Presbyterian Virtual Library

I suppose that the three great Southern Presbyterian Theologians may be identified as James Henley Thornwell, Robert Louis Dabney, and John Lafayette Girardeau. I have attempted to provide below as complete a virtual library of their works as can be accessed as complete works for free. Obviously, there are fragments from these men scattered in numerous other places on the Internet, and there are additional reprintings of their works that are available at a cost. If any of my readers happens to know of links to additional free, electronic copies of the works of any of these gentlemen, please let me know.

James Henley Thornwell

• The collected writings of James Henley Thornwell (Volume 1)
• The collected writings of James Henley Thornwell (Volume 2)
• The collected writings of James Henley Thornwell (Volume 3)
• The collected writings of James Henley Thornwell (Volume 4)
• The life and letters of James Henley Thornwell (Google 1)
• The rights and duties of masters. (Google 1)
• Fanatism[!]--with little reason, science or common sense, unmasks itself
• Our danger and our duty
• Report on the subject of slavery
• The arguments of Romanists from the infallibility of the church and the testimony of the fathers in behalf of the Apocrypha (Google 1)
• Discourses on truth: delivered in the Chapel of the South Carolina College (Google 1)

Robert Louis Dabney

• Syllabus and notes of the course of systematic and polemic theology
• The sensualistic philosophy of the nineteenth century, considered (Google 1)
• Sacred rhetoric : or a course of lectures on preaching
• A review of Theodosia Ernest, or, The heroine of faith
• A defence of Virginia, (and through her, of the South) in recent and pending contests against the sectional party (Google 1)
• Life and campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, (Stonewall Jackson) (Google 1) (Google 2) (Google 3) (Google 4 abr.)

John Lafayette Girardeau

• The life work of John L. Girardeau, D.D., LLd. (this is more of a biography than actually a collection of his works - unfortunately, most of his works seem still not to be freely available)

To the glory of God,

-TurretinFan