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Keepers of the Covenant: Frontier Missions and the Decline of Congregationalism, 1774-1818 (Religion in America) - Tapa dura

Rohrer, James R.

 
9780195091663: Keepers of the Covenant: Frontier Missions and the Decline of Congregationalism, 1774-1818 (Religion in America)
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ISBN 10: 0195091663 ISBN 13: 9780195091663
Editorial: OUP USA, 1995

Sinopsis

Rohrer challenges the traditional interpretation of the decline of the Congregationalists. Drawing heavily on unpublished manuscripts, the author shows that, rather than failing to adapt to the democratizing culture of the western migration, they were in fact aggressive frontier evangelists. In the course of proving this, Rohrer overturns many generalizations about the Congretationalists, and challenges conventional wisdom about church growth and religious declension.

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Acerca del autor

James R. Rohrer currently teaches at Presbyterian Bible College in Taiwan.

De la contraportada

In 1774 the Congregationalists were the largest religious group in America; by 1830 they ranked only fourth. Scholars have advanced various explanations for this decline. Most commonly, they have blamed an elite, reactionary clergy unable to adapt themselves to the democratizing culture of the western migration. This book challenges the reductiveness of that traditional interpretation. With hundreds of letters, diaries, field reports, and sermons at his disposal, James Rohrer examines the background and evangelistic style of the frontier missionaries to show that Congregational missionaries took the frontier seriously, adapting themselves to its requirements. They failed to flourish numerically, Rohrer argues, in part because they were too demanding in their ideal of the pure church. This finding flies in the face of the currently fashionable theory that strict, sectarian groups thrive precisely because they are stricter and more sectarian. As the first full-length treatment of the Congregationalist response to frontier democracy, Keepers of the Covenant will interest church historians and students of early republican America, as well as sociologists and anyone concerned with the decline of the Protestant mainline.

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Editorial
OUP USA
Año de publicación
1995
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0195091663
ISBN 13 
9780195091663
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
224
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