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The Last Puritans Mainline Protestants and the Power of the Past / Margaret Bendroth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bendroth, Margaret Lamberts, 1954- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Protestantism--United States--History.
- Protestantism.
- Congregational churches--United States--History.
- Congregational churches.
- United States--Church history.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (259 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st [edition].
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Congregationalists, the oldest group of American Protestants, are the heirs of New England's first founders. While they were key characters in the story of early American history, from Plymouth Rock and the founding of Harvard and Yale to the Revolutionary War, their luster and numbers have faded. But this critical history of Congregationalism over the past two centuries reveals how the denomination is essential for understanding mainline Protestantism in the making. The book chronicles how the New England Puritans, known for their moral and doctrinal rigor, came to be the antecedents of the United Church of Christ, one of the most liberal of all Protestant denominations today.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Protestant Saints: The Power of Congregational Memory; 2 Sons of the Pilgrim Fathers: How Congregationalists Claimed Their History; 3 The Boston Council of 1865; 4 The Pilgrim Jubilee and What Came of It; 5 Scribes and Scholars: The Careers of Henry Martyn Dexter and Williston Walker; 6 Coming to Terms with the Pilgrim Fathers; 7 The End of One Epoch and the Beginning of Another; 8 History and the Politics of Merger; 9 History and Mainline Protestants: The United Church of Christ Comes of Age; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H
- IJ; K; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-242) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908490-4-5
- 979-88-908490-5-2
- 1-4696-2402-8
- OCLC:
- 921988745
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