A PILGRIM PEOPLE
A History of the United Church of Christ and Its Antecedents
Outline of Contents
- I. Chapter 1: Introduction
- II. Chapter 2: European Roots
- A. Reformation on the Continent
- 1. Luther
- 2. Zwingli and the Reformed Tradition
- 3. The Marburg Colloquy
- 4. Calvin
- 5. Reformation in the Palatinate
- 6. Reformation in Hungary
- 7. Catholic Oppression, War and Toleration
- 8. The Radical Reformation and Schwenkfeld
- B. Reformation in England
- 1. Wycliffe and the Lollards
- 2. Reformation by Royalty
- a. Henry VIII
- b. Edward VI
- c. Mary I
- 3. Elizabeth and the Puritans
- 4. The Stuarts, the Commonwealth, and Toleration
- III. Chapter 3: Puritan New England (1620-1691)
- A. The Pilgrims
- B. The Puritan Migration
- 1. The Colonies
- a. Massachusetts Bay
- b. Connecticut
- c. New Haven
- d. New England Confederation
- e. Other Colonies
- 2. The Polityメmbridge Platform
- 3. Puritan Piety and Worship
- C. Puritan Controversies
- 1. Roger Williams
- 2. Anne Hutchinson
- 3. Presbyterians
- 4. Friends
- 5. Baptists
- 6. Summary
- D. Puritan Mission
- E. Steps Toward Inclusiveness
- IV. Chapter 4: Eighteenth Century Immigration, Developments and Independence (1691-1793)
- A. Beginning of the German Reformed Church in America
- 1. German Settlement
- 2. Before the Coetus
- 3. Schlatter and the Coetus
- 4. German Reformed Piety and Worship
- B. Evolution of Congregationalism in New England
- 1. The Salem Tragedy
- 2. A Broadening Church
- 3. Saybrook
- C. English-speaking Settlement Outside New England
- D. The Revolution and the Churches
- E. Americanization and the Reformed Church
- 1. An American Synod
- 2. The Language Question
- F. Disestablishment in New England (1692-1833)
- V. Chapter 5: Pietism and the Great Awakenings (1675-1835)
- A. Pietism in Europe
- 1. Spener
- 2. Zinzendorf and the Moravians
- 3. Wesley and the Methodists
- B. The Moravians and the Reformed in Pennsylvania
- C. Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening
- 1. Jonathan Edwards
- 2. The Great Awakening
- 3. Parties Within Congregationalism
- a. Old Lights
- b. New Lights
- c. Old Calvinists
- d. Strict Congregationalists
- D. Otterbein and the German Reformed Church
- E. The Second Great Awakening (1795-1835)
- 1. Revivals
- 2. Voluntary Societies
- 3. Female Societies
- F. Revival Theology
- 1. Nathaniel Taylor (1786-1858)
- 2. Charles Grandison Finney (1892-1875)
- G. Winebrenner and the Reformed Church
- VI. Chapter 6: Denominational Realignment in the Second Great Awakening (1793-1866)
- A. No Name But Christian
- 1. James O¡¯Kelly
- 2. Abner Jones
- 3. Barton Stone
- 4. Creating Christian Community
- 5. Christian Controversies
- 6. Christians and Disciples
- B. The Unitarian Schism
- 1. Jedidiah Morse and the contest at Harvard
- 2. The Trinitarian Strategy
- a. A Religious Journal
- b. A School to Train Ministers
- c. Connectionalism
- d. New Churches in Boston
- 3. The War of Ideas
- 4. The Battle in the Courts
- 5. Division of the Churches
- VII. Chapter 7: Mission to the World (1795-1860)
- A. The Societies
- 1. London Missionary Society
- 2. American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
- 3. Basel Mission and Its Offspring
- 4. Mills and other American Societies
- B. The Missions
- 1. Cherokee and Choctaw
- 2. Hawaii
- 3. Western Asia
- 4. Germans in Russia
- 5. Samoa
- 6. Dakota
- C. Mission Theory
- VIII. Chapter 8: The Multiple Fruit of Missions (1800-1860)
- A. The Sunday School
- B. Gallaudet and the Deaf and Dumb
- C. Peace
- D. Women in Mission and in the Church
- 1. Female Missionaries
- 2. Female Education
- 3. Women Praying and Preaching
- IX. Chapter 9: Conquering the Valley and Beyond (1800-1860)
- A. Congregational/Presbyterian Expansion
- 1. Plans of Union and Accommodation
- 2. The Missionary Society of Connecticut
- 3. The American Home Missionary Society
- 4. The Collapse of the Plan of Union
- 5. Congregational Home Missions
- 6. Welsh Congregationalists
- B. Reformed Church Expansion
- 1. Ohio Synod
- 2. Eastern Synod
- 3. The Reformed Church¡¯s Southern Frontier
- 4. Western Expansion
- C. The Evangelical Unionists
- 1. The Evangelical Church of the Union
- 2. A Missionary Strategy for America
- 3. Initial Outreach of the Missionary Societies
- 4. Irenic Pietism
- 5. The Kirchenverein des Westen
- 6. The United Evangelical Synod
- 7. The Evangelical Protestants
- 8. Reflection on Chapters 5 through 9
- X. Chapter 10: Slavery and Freedom (1780-1877)
- A. African Americans and Slavery Before the Abolitionist Movement
- 1. Lemuel Haynes and Phillis Wheatley
- 2. Slavery and the Slave Trade
- 3. Early Opponents
- 4. Post-Revolutionary Movement of Abolition
- B. The American Anti-Slavery Movement
- 1. Arthur and Lewis Tappan
- 2. Amistad
- 3. Radical and Christian Abolitionists
- 4. Battle in the Voluntary Societies and the Churches
- 5. American Missionary Association
- 6. Fugitive Slave Law
- 7. Kansas
- 8. Civil War
- C. Reconstruction
- 1. Fortress Monroe
- 2. Schools
- 3. Higher Education
- 4. Jubilee Singers
- 5. African American Congregations
- XI. Chapter 11: Romanticism (1842-1887)
- A. The Mercersburg Movement
- 1. John Williamson Nevin
- 2. Philip Schaff
- 3. Mercersburg Theology
- 4. The Reformed Church in the South on Its Own
- 5. Liturgical Controversy
- 6. Opposition
- 7. Peace Commission
- B. Horace Bushnell
- C. The Aesthetic in Religion
- XII. Chapter 12: Liberal Protestantism (1860-1920)
- A. A New Theology for a New Day
- 1. Preparers of the Way
- a. Austin Craig
- b. Edward Beecher
- c. Henry Ward Beecher
- 2. Progressive Orthodoxy
- 3. Social Gospel
- B. The Churches Express Their Faith
- 1. Cardinal Principles of the Christian Church
- 2. Evangelical Catechism and Commentary
- 3. Congregational Confessions
- 4. The Peace Commission Report
- C. Changing Piety
- 1. Changing Practices
- 2. What Would Jesus Do?
- D. Liberal Protestantism is Challenged
- 1. Karl Otto
- 2. The Andover Controversies
- 3. George Gilbert
- E. Fundamentalism
- 1. Dwight Moody
- 2. Cyrus Scofield
- XIII. Chapter 13: Denominational Formation (1863/6/71-1920)
- A. National Organization
- 1. Reformed General Synod
- 2. Christian Connection
- 3. Evangelical Synod
- 4. National Council of Congregational Churches
- 5. Synods, Districts and Conferences
- 6. Educational Institutions
- 7. Religious Journalism
- B. Reaching Out for Christian Unity
- 1. Lutheran-Reformed
- 2. German Reformed and Dutch Reformed
- 3. Free Will Baptists, Christians, and Congregationalists
- 4. Christians and Christian Union
- 5. Congregational and Episcopal
- 6. Congregational Methodists
- 7. Congregational and Christian
- 8. Congregational, Methodist Protestant, United Brethren and Christian
- 9. Reformed and Presbyterian
- 10. Local Cooperation and Federation
- C. Women in the Churches
- 1. Formation of Women¡¯s Mission Boards
- 2. Elimination of Women¡¯s Mission Boards
- 3. Lay Officers
- 4. Ordained Women
- XIV: Chapter 14: Mission to America (1860-1920)
- A. Inner Mission
- B. Ministry to Children and Youth
- 1. Parochial Schools
- 2. Sunday Schools
- 3. Ministry to Youth
- C. African Americans in the South after Reconstruction
- 1. Schools
- 2. Churches
- 3. Color Line Debate㐡rt 1
- 4. Color Line Debate㐡rt 2
- D. American Indian Missions
- 1. Dakota Mission
- 2. Fort Berthold
- 3. The Ho Cak
- 4. Reflection
- XV: Chapter 15: The New Americans (1860-1920)
- A. Germans from Russia
- 1. The Brotherhood in Russia
- 2. Immigration
- 3. German Russians in the German Reformed Church
- 4. German Congregationalists
- B. The Chinese in America
- C. Congregationalists and Mission Covenant
- D. Magyar Reformed in Hungary and America
- 1. Survival and Renewal in Hungary
- 2. In America
- E. Armenians in Turkey and America
- F. The Japanese in Japan and in America
- 1. Mission to Japan
- 2. Japanese in America
- 3. Summary
- XVI. Chapter 16: The American Church In Its Global Context (1866-1920)
- A. The Administration of Foreign Missions
- 1. The Mission Controversy in the Evangelical Synod
- 2. Evolving Mission Policy in the ABCFM
- 3. Tainted Money
- 4. Near East Relief
- B. Missions and Churches
- 1. Haoles and Hawaiians
- 2. Hawaii¡¯s Ethnic Mosaic
- 3. The Church in Samoa
- 4. Puerto Rico
- 5. The Philippines
- C. War and Peace
- 1. The Peace Movement, 1861-1917
- 2. War Fever
- 3. The Evangelical Synod and World War I
- XVII. Chapter 17: The Church Faces a Changing World (1920-1960)
- A. The Christian Faith in a Changing World
- 1. Neo-Orthodoxy
- 2. The Niebuhrs
- 3. Fundamentalists and Evangelicals
- 4. Piety and Worship
- B. Mission to the World
- 1. Rethinking Missions
- 2. Frank Laubach
- C. The Church and World War II
- 1. War, Peace and International Reconstruction
- 2. Japanese Christians in Japan, Hawaii, and the Mainland
- 3. The Church in the Philippines
- D. Social Issues
- XVIII. Chapter 18: The Road to Union
- A. Congregationalists, Evangelical Protestants, and Christians
- 1. Evangelical Protestants
- 2. Christians and Congregationalists
- B. The Evangelical and Reformed Church
- C. The United Church of Christ
- 1. The Rocky Road to Cleveland
- 2. Defining the New Church
- 3. Creating a Unified Church
- 4. Calvin Synod
- 5. Dissident Groups
- 6. Other interested groups
- 7. What Union Meant to the Churches
- XIX. Chapter 19: The New United Churchつdressing Social Issues
- A. Civil Rights
- 1. The Institute at Fisk
- 2. Civil Rights Movement
- 3. Black Power
- 4. Wilmington Ten
- 5. African Americans in the UCC Today
- B. Just Peace
- C. Feminism
- 1. Women¡¯s Organization in the UCC
- 2. Female Clergy
- 3. Inclusive Language
- D. Homosexuality
- 1. Ordination of Homosexuals
- 2. The Church Takes a Stand
- 3. Open and Affirming
- XX. Chapter 20: The New United Church㐩ety, Theology and Ecumenism
- A. Theology in the New United Church
- 1. Sound Teaching
- 2. Theological Ferment
- 3. Theologians
- a. Walter Brueggemann
- b. Frederick Herzog
- c. Susan Thistlethwaite
- d. Donald Bloesch
- B. Movements for Deepening Spirituality
- 1. Confirmation
- 2. Children and Communion
- 3. Liturgical Renewal
- 4. Charismatic Movement in the UCC
- 5. ¡㰩rituality¡튼li>6. What Is UCC Piety?
- C. The New United Church of Christ and the Ecumenical Movement
- 1. Ecumenical Partnership
- 2. Consultation on Church Union
- 3. Kirchengemeinschaft
- 4. Formula of Agreement
- XXI. Chapter 21: The New United Church㉴s Mission and Structure
- A. Racial/Ethnic Pluralism
- 1. Samoan Congregationalists in America
- 2. Filipino Churches
- 3. American Indian Ministry
- 4. Hispanic Ministry
- 5. Pacific Asian-American Ministries
- B. Evangelism and Church Growth
- C. Millard Fuller
- D. The Nature of Ministry
- E. Structural Issues
- 1. Institutions
- 2. Conferences
- 3. Restructuring