American Presbyterianism

Author : D G Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781629956541
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeking a Better Country written by D G Hart and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first American presbytery was founded in 1706. In the following years, Presbyterians grew to form one of the largest and most eminent denominations in the United States. Now, more than three hundred years later, that church is dwindling. What has happened? Lively, bracing, and informative, Seeking a Better Country takes an honest look at the rise and decline of American Presbyterianism, giving context to Presbyterians of all stripes.

Author : Charles Augustus Briggs
Publisher : New York, C. Scribner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Presbyterianism written by Charles Augustus Briggs and published by New York, C. Scribner. This book was released on 1885 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bradley J. Longfield
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 066423156X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Presbyterians and American Culture written by Bradley J. Longfield and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a history of Presbyterians in American culture from the early eighteenth to the late twentieth century. Longfield assesses both the theological and cultural development of American Presbyterianism, with particular focus on the mainline tradition that is expressed most prominently in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). He explores how Presbyterian churches--and individuals rooted in those churches--influenced and were influenced by the values, attitudes, perspectives, beliefs, and ideals assumed by Americans in the course of American history. The book will serve as an important introduction to Presbyterian history that will interest historians, students, and church leaders alike.

Author : Coleman, Michael C.
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617034602
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Presbyterian Missionary Attitudes toward American Indians, 1837–1893 written by Coleman, Michael C. and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1985 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : S. Donald Fortson III
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630878642
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonial Presbyterianism written by S. Donald Fortson III and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial Presbyterianism is a collection of essays that tell the story of the Presbyterian Church during its formative years in America. The book brings together research from a broad group of scholars into an accessible format for laymen, clergy, and scholars. Through a survey of important personalities and events, the contributors offer a compelling narrative that will be of interest to Presbyterians and all persons interested in colonial America's religious experience. The clergy described in these essays made a lasting impact on their generation both within the church and in the emerging ethos of a new nation. The ecclesiastical issues that surfaced during this period have tended to be the perennial issues with which Presbyterians have been concerned ever since that time. Now at the three-hundredth anniversary of Presbyterian organization in America, Colonial Presbyterianism is a timely reengagement with the old faith for a new day.

Author : Bryan F. Le Beau
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813159385
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jonathan Dickinson and the Formative Years of American Presbyterianism written by Bryan F. Le Beau and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the eighteenth century Presbyterians of the Middle Colonies were separated by divergent allegiances, mostly associated with groups migrating from New England with an English Puritan background and from northern Ireland with a Scotch-lrish tradition. Those differences led first to a fiery ordeal of ecclesiastical controversy and then to a spiritual awakening and a blending of diversity into a new order, American Presbyterianism. Several men stand out not only for having been tested by this ordeal but also for having made real contributions to the new order that arose from the controversy. The most important of these was Jonathan Dickinson. Bryan Le Beau has written the first book on Dickinson, whom historians have called "the most powerful mind in his generation of American divines." One of the founders of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and its first president, Dickinson was a central figure during the First Great Awakening and one of the leading lights of colonial religious life. Le Beau examines Dickinson's writings and actions, showing him to have been a driving force in forming the American Presbyterian Church, accommodating diverse traditions in the early church, and resolving the classic dilemma of American religious history -- the simultaneous longing for freedom of conscience and the need for order. This account of Dickinson's life and writings provides a rare window into a time of intense turmoil and creativity in American religious history.

Author : Gary Scott Smith
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 0190608390
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Presbyterianism written by Gary Scott Smith and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2019 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presbyterianism emerged during the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation. It spread from the British Isles to North America in the early eighteenth century. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Presbyterian denominations grew throughout the world. Today, there are an estimated 35 million Presbyterians in dozens of countries. The Oxford Handbook of Presbyterianism provides a state of the art reference tool written by leading scholars in the fields of religious studies and history. These thirty five articles cover major facets of Presbyterian history, theological beliefs, worship practices, ecclesiastical forms and structures, as well as important ethical, political, and educational issues. Eschewing parochial and sectarian triumphalism, prominent scholars address their particular topics objectively and judiciously.

Author : Charles Augustus Briggs
Publisher : New York, C. Scribner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Presbyterianism written by Charles Augustus Briggs and published by New York, C. Scribner. This book was released on 1885 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948102278
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Presbyterianism written by Samuel Miller and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Milton J. Coalter
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664250973
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Presbyterian Predicament written by Milton J. Coalter and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, six prominent writers from different disciplines strive to analyze the Presbyterian predicament and to offer solutions. The authors each approach this theme from a different angle, resulting in a varied and highly informative look at the state of the Presbyterian Church. Through its examination of American Presbyterianism, the Presbyterian Presence series illuminates patterns of change in mainstream Protestantism and American religious and cultural life in the twentieth century.