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James E. Kirby, Russell E. Richey, Kenneth E. Rowe
Prepared in part under the auspices of "United Methodism and American Culture," a program funded through a grant by Lilly Endowment, Inc.
Book Code: KTM/
ISBN: 0-313-22048-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-22048-7
424 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 10/30/1996
List Price: $131.95 (UK Sterling Price: £75.00)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Paperback
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Denominations in America
Series Number: 8
Reviews:
  • The book's strength is its detailing of Methodist organizational structures and its honest presentation of American Methodism's struggles with racism and sexism...this is an essential addition to academic collections in religion and American history and is also appropriate for public libraries with collection strengths in those areas.
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    Library Journal
  • Scholars and students of religion in America will find this volume and the bibliographic essay included at the end helpful and enlightening.
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    Choice
  • Seminary libraries should definitely add this work to their collections. Public and academic libraries that serve large populations of Methodists and those that collect in American religions or American studies should also purchase the book...
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    RQ
Description: Although this work takes proper notice of its origins in John Wesley's 18th-century movement in England, it assumes that in America the people called Methodists developed in distinctive fashion. The volume examines this American version, its organization, leadership, and form of training and incorporating new members. The authors treat Methodism as defined by conferences bound together by a commitment to episcopal leadership and animated by various forms of lay piety. Offering a fresh perspective based on sound, modern scholarship, this study will be of interest to scholars, students, and anyone interested in church history. American Methodists early organized into conferences that defined Methodist space and time and served as the locus of power. At the same time, they created a strong episcopal form of church government, subject to the body of preachers in conference, but free to lead and direct the organization as a whole. This mission was clear, well understood, and suited to the ethos of a growing America--"to spread scriptural holiness in the land and to create a desire to flee from the wrath to come." By the middle of the 19th century, Methodists in America had grown from an insignificant sect to America's largest Protestant group. Essential to that growth were structures and processes of lay involvement, particularly class meetings and Sunday schools.
Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Bishops
  • America Episcopacy
  • Constitutional Methodism
  • Two Patterns of Episcopacy
  • Conference
  • The Methodist Conference
  • General Conference: A Continental Order
  • Conference Politicized
  • Fratricide
  • Formalization
  • Pluralism
  • Members
  • Making Moral Christians and Loyal Methodists
  • Class Meeting and Sunday School, 1816-1866
  • Sunday School for All, 1866-1915
  • From Class Meeting to Probationer's Class, 1866-1915
  • The Sunday School Renaissance, 1915-1935
  • Making Methodist Disciples, 1939-1968
  • A Biographical Dictionary of Methodist Leaders
  • Abbreviations used in This Volume
  • Biographical Entries
  • A Chronology of American Methodism
  • Bibliographical Essay
  • Index
LC Card Number: 96-536
LCC Class: BX8382
Dewey Class: 287
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