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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bendroth, Margaret, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Edition:1st [edition].
Subjects:
Congregational churches > United States > History.
Protestantism > United States > History.
Églises congrégationalistes > États-Unis > Histoire.
Protestantisme > États-Unis > Histoire.
RELIGION > Christianity > Presbyterian.
RELIGION > Christianity > Calvinist.
Congregational churches
Protestantism
United States > Church history.
États-Unis > Histoire religieuse.
United States
Verenigde Staten.
Church history
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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