Protestantism in America

Author Randall Balmer

Publisher Columbia University Press

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eBook

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Randall Balmer

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Columbia University Press

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Copyright

2007

ISBN13

9780231507691

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eBook

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College Freshman - College Senior

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Describes Protestantism's history and essential beliefs. Examines the diversity of the tradition with accounts of life and worship in a variety of mainline and evangelical churches. Explores the vexed relationship Protestantism maintains with critical social issues, including homosexuality, feminism, and social justice.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Other Frontmatter.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Other Frontmatter.
Contents.
Preface.
Easter Sunday.
“Middling” Protestantism.
Centrality of the Sermon.
Evangelical Versus Liberal.
Protestant Sacramentalism.
Everyone Welcome.
Background.
1: Protestantism in America.
2: Protestantism in Colonial America.
3: Classifying American Protestants in the Nineteenth Century.
4: Definitions: Evangelical and Liberal.
5: The Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy.
6: Characteristics of an Evangelical Protestant.
7: Characteristics of a Liberal Protestant.
8: Protestant Sacramentalism.
9: Protestant Demographics.
10: The Aberration of “Mainline Protestantism”.
11: The Roots of Division.
12: The “Mainline Mirage”.
13: The Evangelical Resurgence.
14: American Protestantism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century.
15: A Brief History of Protestantism in America.
16: The Legacy of Puritanism.
17: The Legacy of Pietism.
18: The Age of Awakenings.
19: New Lights Versus Old Lights.
20: Protestantism and the American Revolution.
21: Protestantism and Democracy.
22: Protestantism and the Sectional Crisis.
23: Postmillennialism and Arminianism.
24: Protestants and Social Reform.
25: The Emergence of Liberal Protestantism.
26: Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism.
27: American Protestantism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century.
28: The Varieties of Protestantism in America.
29: A Taxonomy of Liberal Protestantism.
30: A Taxonomy of Evangelical Protestantism.
Case Studies.
31: Williston Federated Church.
32: Liberal Protestants and Ecumenism.
33: Protestant Musical Styles.
34: Protestants and Prayer.
35: Williston and the Larger World.
36: Abyssinian Baptist Church.
37: The Baptist Tradition.
38: The Church at Prayer.
39: Middle-Class Black Protestantism.
40: The Centrality of the Sermon.
41: Congregational Response.
42: New Life Family Fellowship.
43: “New Wav
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