The Last Puritans : Mainline Protestants and the Power of the Past /

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 fad...

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Auteur principal: Bendroth, Margaret Lamberts, 1954-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Édition:1st [edition].
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Protestantism.
Congregational churches.
RELIGION > Christianity > Calvinist.
RELIGION > Christianity > Presbyterian.
Protestantisme > États-Unis > Histoire.
Églises congregationalistes > États-Unis > Histoire.
Protestantism > United States > History.
Congregational churches > United States > History.
Verenigde Staten.
United States.
États-Unis > Histoire religieuse.
United States > Church history.
History.
Church history.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Protestant saints: the power of congregational memory
  • Sons of the pilgrim fathers: how Congregationalists claimed their history
  • The Boston Council of 1865
  • The Pilgrim Jubilee and what came of it
  • Scribes and scholars: the careers of Henry Martyn Dexter and Williston Walker
  • Coming to terms with the pilgrim fathers
  • The end of one epoch and the beginning of another
  • History and the politics of merger
  • History and mainline Protestants: the United Church of Christ comes of age.

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