Author: Second Church of Newton (West Newton, Mass.)
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Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Our Church, Its History, Its Buildings, Its Spirit
Author: Second Church of Newton (West Newton, Mass.)
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Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Publisher:
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Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Our Church
Author: Second Church in Newton (West Newton, Mass.)
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Category : Newton (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Category : Newton (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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The Last Puritans
Author: Margaret Bendroth
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146962401X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
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 Margaret Bendroth's critical history of Congregationalism over the past two centuries reveals how the denomination is essential for understanding mainline Protestantism in the making. Bendroth 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. The demands of competition in the American religious marketplace spurred Congregationalists, Bendroth argues, to face their distinctive history. By engaging deeply with their denomination's storied past, they recast their modern identity. The soul-searching took diverse forms--from letter writing and eloquent sermonizing to Pilgrim-celebrating Thanksgiving pageants--as Congregationalists renegotiated old obligations to their seventeenth-century spiritual ancestors. The result was a modern piety that stood a respectful but ironic distance from the past and made a crucial contribution to the American ethos of religious tolerance.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146962401X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
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 Margaret Bendroth's critical history of Congregationalism over the past two centuries reveals how the denomination is essential for understanding mainline Protestantism in the making. Bendroth 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. The demands of competition in the American religious marketplace spurred Congregationalists, Bendroth argues, to face their distinctive history. By engaging deeply with their denomination's storied past, they recast their modern identity. The soul-searching took diverse forms--from letter writing and eloquent sermonizing to Pilgrim-celebrating Thanksgiving pageants--as Congregationalists renegotiated old obligations to their seventeenth-century spiritual ancestors. The result was a modern piety that stood a respectful but ironic distance from the past and made a crucial contribution to the American ethos of religious tolerance.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Author: Boston Public Library
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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The Cumulative Book Index
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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A world list of books in the English language.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
The United States Catalog
Alphabetical Arrangement of Main Entries from the Shelf List
Author: Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.). Library
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 940
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 940
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Massachusetts, a Bibliography of Its History
Author: John Duncan Haskell
Publisher: Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Publisher: Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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The United States Catalog
Author: Ida M. Lynn
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 894
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 894
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