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Category : Boston (Mass. )
Languages : en
Pages : 1710
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The Congregationalist
Author: The Expositor
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Category : Homiletical illustrations
Languages : en
Pages : 1456
Book Description
The Christian Century
Author: Public Opinion
Author: The Congregationalist and Advance
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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 1756
Book Description
The Congregationalist
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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Record of Christian Work
Author: Alexander McConnellPublisher:
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
Includes music.
Christian Register and Boston Observer...
Author: Illinois Biographical Dictionary
Author: Caryn HannanPublisher: State History Publications
ISBN: 1878592602
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 775
Book Description
Biographies on interesting and influential persons who have lived in the state of Illinois.
The Last Puritans
Author: Margaret BendrothPublisher: 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.