Presbyterians and American Culture
Title | Presbyterians and American Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Bradley J. Longfield |
Publisher | Westminster John Knox Press |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2013-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 066423156X |
This book provides a history of Presbyterians in American culture from the early eighteenth to the late twentieth century. Longfield assesses both the theological and cultural development of American Presbyterianism, with particular focus on the mainline tradition that is expressed most prominently in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). He explores how Presbyterian churches--and individuals rooted in those churches--influenced and were influenced by the values, attitudes, perspectives, beliefs, and ideals assumed by Americans in the course of American history. The book will serve as an important introduction to Presbyterian history that will interest historians, students, and church leaders alike.
Seeking a Better Country
Title | Seeking a Better Country PDF eBook |
Author | John R. Muether |
Publisher | P & R Publishing |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Presbyterian Church |
ISBN | 9780875525747 |
This book is written to cure the amnesia from which all Presbyterians suffer who trace their origins to the first presbytery founded in 1706 in Philadelphia. We did write this book from the conviction and understanding that the church expressions of Presbyterianism in the Presbyterian Church (USA), EPC, PCA, and OPC have substantial and deep roots in the American Presbyterian experience begun when seven ministers assembled in Philadelphia for mutual edification and to ordain another man to the ministry of the Word and sacrament. As such our purpose is to help contemporary and future Presbyterians connect the dots between their own experiences in particular communions and the generations of Presbyterians who preceded them. - Preface.
Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania, 1770-1830
Title | Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania, 1770-1830 PDF eBook |
Author | Peter E. Gilmore |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2020-10-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780822966678 |
Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania, 1770–1830 is a historical study examining the religious culture of Irish immigrants in the early years of America. Despite fractious relations among competing sects, many immigrants shared a vision of a renewed Ireland in which their versions of Presbyterianism could flourish free from the domination of landlords and established church. In the process, they created the institutional foundations for western Pennsylvanian Presbyterian churches. Rural Presbyterian Irish church elders emphasized community and ethnoreligious group solidarity in supervising congregants’ morality. Improved transportation and the greater reach of the market eliminated near-subsistence local economies and hastened the demise of religious traditions brought from Ireland. Gilmore contends that ritual and daily religious practice, as understood and carried out by migrant generations, were abandoned or altered by American-born generations in the context of major economic change.
American Presbyterianism
Title | American Presbyterianism PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Augustus Briggs |
Publisher | New York, C. Scribner |
Pages | 612 |
Release | 1885 |
Genre | Presbyterian Church |
ISBN |
The Presbyterian Ministry in American Culture
Title | The Presbyterian Ministry in American Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Elwyn Allen Smith |
Publisher | |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | Clergy |
ISBN |
American Presbyterianism
Title | American Presbyterianism PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Augustus Briggs |
Publisher | New York, C. Scribner |
Pages | 560 |
Release | 1885 |
Genre | Presbyterian Church in the U.S. History |
ISBN |
Unity in Christ and Country
Title | Unity in Christ and Country PDF eBook |
Author | William Harrison Taylor |
Publisher | |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Presbyterian Church |
ISBN | 9780817390884 |