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The Congregationalists
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J. William T. Youngs
Book Code: YOC/
ISBN: 0-313-22159-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-22159-0
400 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 10/24/1990
List Price: $85.00 (UK Sterling Price: £47.95)
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: 4
Reviews:
  • This comparatively brief book covers four centuries and two continents in an accessible style. Carefully researched, it offers rich insights into the livesof the famous and the obscure, fleshing out in biographical detail the faith, hopes and fears of a pilgrim people.
    —Theological Book Review
Description: A chronological survey of Congregationalism throughout the course of its history and a collection of biographies of significant Congregationalists form the core of this reference/volume. J. William T. Youngs demonstrates how the Puritan way of seeing God, humanity, and salvation has continued to influence Americans and how the unique spiritual sensibility of the early Puritans endured throughout the Colonial period and long afterwards. The volume is divided into two parts. Part One contains a ten-chapter historical essay that summarizes basic information about the Church and also provides original interpretations of particular episodes in Church history or on Congregationalism as a whole, offering new insights and ideas about such issues as the genesis of the idea of "visible saints" and the significance of Horace Bushnell. The continuity of Congregationalism from colonial times through the 19th and 20th centuries is stressed. Part Two, the biographical dictionary, emphasizes the personal experiences of Congregationalists, and several score representative lives, both ministers and lay persons, famous and ordinary, illustrate and amplify points made in Part One. This exploration of the personal spiritual experiences of John Winthrop, Jonathan Edwards, Horace Bushnell, and others, based on autobiographies, funeral sermons, books, and journals, conveys a feeling for the religious life of Congregationalists. To enhance further study, the volume includes a separate bibliographic essay. As both a reference work and an interpretive essay, The Congregationalists provides a useful introduction to the Church for the general reader and will also provoke fellow scholars to consider new ways of exploring Puritan history.
Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword
  • Preface
  • The Congregationalists: A History
  • The Congregationalists: A Summary Overview
  • The English Background
  • The New England Way
  • Declension and Awakening
  • Revivalism and Rationalism
  • New Divinity and a New Nation
  • Expansion and Reform
  • Progressive Orthodoxy
  • The Social Gospel
  • The Twentieth Century
  • A Biographical Dictionary of Congregationalist Leaders
  • Abbreviations for Standard Reference Sources
  • Bibliographic Entries
  • Appendix: Chronology
  • Biographical Essay
  • Index
LC Card Number: 89-78411
LCC Class: BX7135
Dewey Class: 285
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