Author: Richard H. TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Churches of Christ of the Congregational Way in New England
Author: Richard H. TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Congregationalist
Author: The Steeples of Old New England
Author: Kirk ShivellPublisher: ProStar Publications
ISBN: 9781577850571
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The church steeple was one of the first art forms to be cultivated in this new land, becoming one of early Americas principal artistic achievements. The backstory of this distinctive art form is a fascinating one. The "Yankees," a homogenous group emerged in New England in the early 18th century. Their artistic abilities in design are also prevalent in silverwork and furniture craft, however it was in their steeples that they excelled and in which they were best expressed. In The Steeples of Old New England, Kirk Shivell traces both the history of these steeples and the Yankee society that built them, including many examples and anecdotes, covering the period between 1701 through 1860. This book provides a wealth of information students of history, architecture, and religion, or anyone else interested in reading about or visiting these historical landmarks. These magnificent edifices rose up everywhere on the newly settled New England landscape; the earliest built only a half-century before the American Revolution, and the last, built right before the Civil War. There are over 115 exquisitely beautiful illustrations, some full color, and others taken from documents of the period. A comprehensive directory and bibliography are also included.
Early New England
Author: David A. WeirPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802813527
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The idea of covenant was at the heart of early New England society. In this singular book David Weir explores the origins and development of covenant thought in America by analyzing the town and church documents written and signed by seventeenth-century New Englanders. Unmatched in the breadth of its scope, this study takes into account all of the surviving covenants in all of the New England colonies. Weir's comprehensive survey of seventeenth-century covenants leads to a more complex picture of early New England than what emerges from looking at only a few famous civil covenants like the Mayflower Compact. His work shows covenant theology being transformed into a covenantal vision for society but also reveals the stress and strains on church-state relationships that eventually led to more secularized colonial governments in eighteenth-century New England. He concludes that New England colonial society was much more "English" and much less "American" than has often been thought, and that the New England colonies substantially mirrored religious and social change in Old England.
History of New England
Author: John Gorham PalfreyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 337510393X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.
The Congregational Magazine
Author: American Denominational History
Author: Keith HarperPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 081735512X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
This work brings various important topics and groups in American religious history the rigor of scholarly assessment of the current literature. The fruitful questions that are posed by the positions and experiences of the various groups are carefully examined. American Denominational History points the way for the next decade of scholarly effort. Contents Roman Catholics by Amy Koehlinger Congregationalists by Margaret Bendroth Presbyterians by Sean Michael Lucas American Baptists by Keith Harper Methodists by Jennifer L. Woodruff Tait Black Protestants by Paul Harvey Mormons by David J. Whittaker Pentecostals by Randall J. Stephens Evangelicals by Barry Hankins
Shaping of the United Church of Christ:
Author: Louis H. GunnemannPublisher: The Pilgrim Press
ISBN: 0829821015
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
The author wrote a compelling story of how the United Church of Christ took shape in the mid-twentieth century. During this time, church unions were a prominent feature of the movement toward Christian unity and secular models of organization dominated denominational development. Charles Shelby Rooks has expanded this classic text by bringing the United Church of Christ story to the forty-year mark. Today the United Church of Christ has grown into a denomination that strives to become a multicultural and multiracial church. Rooks's additional chapter provides reflections on five themes woven throughout the church between 1977 and 1998. The documentation cited will provide helpful guidance to anyone seeking to pursue additional study of the United Church of Christ. An interpretive essay in the history of American Christianity, this book is also a narrative account of the church union process itself. In that respect it is of significance for Protestant Christianity in general.
Catalogue of a ... Library, comprising ... early voyages and travels, ... also a few most important manuscripts ... and other curiosities of literature, ... which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, etc. (Prices obtained at the sale, etc.).
Author: The New England Soul
Author: Harry S. StoutPublisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199890978
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Harry Stout's groundbreaking study of preaching in colonial New England changed the field when it first appeared in 1986. Here, twenty-five years later, is a reissue of Stout's book: a reconstruction of the full import of the colonial sermon as a multi-faceted institution that served both religious and political purposes and explained history and society to the New England Puritans for one and a half centuries.