The Last Puritans
Margaret Bendroth
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The University of North Carolina Press
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Religion/Theologie
Beschreibung
Congregationalists, the oldest group of American Protestants, are the heirs of New England's first founders. While they were key characters in the story of early American history, from Plymouth Rock and the founding of Harvard and Yale to the Revolutionary War, their luster and numbers have faded. But Margaret Bendroth's critical history of Congregationalism over the past two centuries reveals how the denomination is essential for understanding mainline Protestantism in the making.
Bendroth chronicles how the New England Puritans, known for their moral and doctrinal rigor, came to be the antecedents of the United Church of Christ, one of the most liberal of all Protestant denominations today. The demands of competition in the American religious marketplace spurred Congregationalists, Bendroth argues, to face their distinctive history. By engaging deeply with their denomination's storied past, they recast their modern identity. The soul-searching took diverse forms--from letter writing and eloquent sermonizing to Pilgrim-celebrating Thanksgiving pageants--as Congregationalists renegotiated old obligations to their seventeenth-century spiritual ancestors. The result was a modern piety that stood a respectful but ironic distance from the past and made a crucial contribution to the American ethos of religious tolerance.
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theological liberalism, history of religious doubt, Williston Walker, Henry Martyn Dexter, primitivism, religious tolerance in American culture, New England in American culture, United Church of Christ – race relations, progressive religion, mainline Protestantism, Protestant ecumenism, Andover Seminary, Calvinism in American culture, Council for Social Action, United Church of Christ, Douglas Horton, Protestant creeds, religion and historicism, religion and memory, Horace Bushnell, Congregational churches, Pilgrims and American democracy, denominational mergers, Protestant denominationalism, religion and democracy, Washington Gladden, Pilgrims and Puritans in historical memory, Congregational church polity, Congregationalism