Author: Margaret Bendroth
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146962401X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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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.
Author: Henry Martyn Dexter
Publisher:
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
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Author: Henry Martyn Dexter
Publisher:
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
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Author: Henry Martyn Dexter
Publisher:
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Author: William Weston Patton
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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Author: Jonathan Leeman
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 1433686228
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Church membership is not just a status, it’s an office. Leaders shouldn’t fire members from the responsibilities given to them by Jesus—they should train them! When members are trained, the church grows in holiness and love, discipleship and mission. Complacency and nominalism are diminished. Jesus gives every church member an office in the church’s government: to assume final responsibility for guarding the what and the who of the gospel in the church and its ministry. Similarly, Jesus gives leaders to the church for equipping the members to do this church-building and mission-accomplishing work. In our day, the tasks of reinvigorating congregational authority and elder authority must work together. The vision of congregationalism pictured in this book offers an integrated view of the Christian life. Congregationalism is biblical, but biblical congregationalism just might look a little different than you expect. It is nothing less than Jesus’ authorization for living out his kingdom rule among a people on mission.
Author: Henry Martyn Dexter
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781347067888
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Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Author: Henry Martyn Dexter
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781397263346
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
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Excerpt from The Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundred Years, as Seen in Its Literature: With Special Reference to Certain Recondite, Neglected, or Disputed Passages; In Twelve Lectures, Delivered on the Southworth Foundation in the Theological Seminary at Andover, Mass., 1876-1879; With a Bibliographical Appendix It is not the least debt which we owe unto History, that it hath made us acquainted with our dead Ancestors, and out of the depth and darkness of the Earth delivered us their Mem ory and Fame In a word, we may gather out of History a Policy no less Wise than Eter nal, by the Comparison and Application of other men's fore-passed Miseries, with our own like Errors and Ill deservings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Henry Martyn Dexter
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Author: Phil A. Newton
Publisher: Kregel Academic
ISBN: 9780825494789
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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(Foreword by Mark Dever) A biblically functioning church requires intentional devotion to the New Testament model of the church. In this practical book, Phil Newton gives a definitive and biblical study of elder-based leadership.
