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：CCambridge 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：CPart 1
    • 4. Color Line Debate：CPart 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
    • 1. Summary

• 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：CAddressing 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：CPiety, 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. ¡＜Spirituality¡＼
    • 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：CIts 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