Appendix 2: Authors and Historical Background

None of the original facsimiles collected by the editor named either author on the Sum’s title page. The editor inserted the author’s names, David Dickson and James Durham, due to modern sensibilities and to accommodate normal searching and indexing. Further, nearly all of the facsimiles were not of the Sum alone, but although it had an independent title page, it was printed along with the various Westminster standards. This was not at all inappropriate, as the Sum was specifically intended as a summary of the most important and fundamental teachings of those standards. For this reason, a brief overview of the history of the Westminster Assembly appears below.