American Denominational History: Perspectives on the Past, Prospects for the Future

Contents

Contents Preface ix Introduction 1 1. Catholic Distinctiveness and the Challenge of American Denominationalism Amy Koehlinger 7 2. New Directions on the Congregational Way Margaret Bendroth 31 3. Presbyterians in America: Denominational History and the Quest for Identity Sean Michael Lucas 50 4. From the Margin to the Middle to Somewhere In Between: An Overview of American Baptist Historiography Keith Harper 71 5. “Everything Arose Just as the Occasion Offered”: Defining Methodist Identity through the History of Methodist Polity Jennifer L. Woodruff Tait 95 6. Black Protestantism: A Historiographical Appraisal Paul Harvey 120 7. Mormon Historiography David J. Whittaker 146 8. Interpreting American Pentecostal Origins: Retrospect and Prospect Randall J. Stephens 173 9. “We’re All Evangelicals Now”: The Existential and Backward Historiography of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism Barry Hankins 196 Contributors 221 ...