The Re-forming Tradition: Presbyterians and Mainstream ProtestantismMilton J. Coalter, John M. Mulder, Louis Weeks This book challenges American Presbyterians to remember their calling as Christians. The author believes that Presbyterians are summoned to a character of life that will awaken and address the religious questions of today with powerful and persuasive Christian perspectives and answers. By recognizing again the message of the good news of the gospel and by speaking directly to our world, the authors tell how American Presbyterians can recover their identity as Reformed Christians and continue to make a creative contribution to the witness of the church in the world. 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. |
Contents
Series Foreword | 13 |
Introduction | 21 |
The Twentieth | 33 |
The American Cultural Landscape | 48 |
Conclusion | 63 |
Whither the Mainstream Protestants? | 67 |
Religious Preference in Contemporary | 71 |
Switching Between Denominations | 78 |
Ministries with Racial Ethnic | 171 |
The Ecumenical Movement | 177 |
Presbyterian Educational Resource Materials | 180 |
From Old to New Agendas | 186 |
Presbyterian Womens Organizations | 199 |
The Use of the Bible in Presbyterian Curricula | 205 |
Changing Leadership Patterns in the Presbyterian | 235 |
Ecumenism and Denominational | 237 |
Membership Decline | 86 |
American Presbyterians and the Colonial | 92 |
The Age of Incorporation | 100 |
The New Denomination | 113 |
Women and Changing Understandings of Ordination | 134 |
Erskine Clarke | 149 |
A Case Study in | 150 |
Allocation of Giving in the Presbyterian Church in | 154 |
Reform Means Revitalizing Education | 261 |
Reform Means Recovery of Theological | 273 |
Contexts for a History of Asian American Presbyterian | 280 |
Conclusion | 285 |
Selected Readings | 333 |
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