Beyond Establishment: Protestant Identity in a Post-Protestant AgeJackson W. Carroll, Wade Clark Roof This book takes a novel, cultural approach to studying mainline denominations, focusing on the denominations' religious and moral vision--the beliefs, values, symbols, stories, and style that make a denomination distinct. Of special concern are the ways in which denominations passed on their vision and how they maintained plausibility under changing circumstances. Contributors include a variety of authors, historians, sociologists, anthropologists, educators, and liturgists who examine ways in which denominations have sought to transmit their culture with varying degrees of success or failure. |
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
PART ONE Denominations as Local Institutions | 29 |
Denominational Identity and the Church School | 54 |
Hymns as Transmitters | 99 |
Centers of Denominational | 116 |
PART TWO Denominations as Translocal Institutions | 139 |
Transmitters of Denominational | 157 |
Allison Stokes | 173 |
Presbyterian Ordination Practice as a Case Study | 205 |
Case Studies | 225 |
A Denomination | 248 |
Denominational Identity | 296 |
Views from the Edge | 309 |
Toward a PostDenominational World Church | 327 |
Beyond Establishment but in Which Direction? | 343 |
Transmission Transformation | 188 |
Common terms and phrases
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