CONTENTS

• Title Page

• Preface

• Abbreviations

• Chapter 1: Introduction

• Chapter 2: European Roots
  1. Reformation on the Continent
     1. Luther
     2. Zwingli and the Reformed Treadition
     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
  2. Reformation in England
     1. Wyclif and the Lollards
     2. Reformation by Royalty
        1. Henry VIII
        2. Edward VI
        3. Mary
     3. Elizabeth and the Puritans
     4. The Stuarts, the Commonwealth, and Toleration

• Chapter 3: Puritan New England (1620-1691)
  1. The Pilgrims
  2. The Puritan Migration
     1. The colonies
        1. Massachusetts Bay Colony
        2. Connecticut
        3. New Haven
        4. New England Confederation
        5. other coolonies
     2. The Polity: Cambridge Platform
     3. Puritan Piety and Worship
  3. Puritan Controversies
     1. Roger Williams
     2. Anne Hutchinson
     3. Presbyterians
     4. Friends
     5. Baptists
     6. Summary
  4. Puritan Mission
  5. Steps Toward Inclusiveness

• Chapter 4: Eighteenth Century Immigration, Developments and Independence (1691-1793)
  1. 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
  2. Evolution of Congregationalism in New England
     1. The Salem Tragedy
     2. A Broadening Church
        1. Solomon Stoddard
        2. Brattle Street Church
        3. the Enlightenment
     3. Saybrook
  3. English-speaking Settlement Outside New England
  4. The Revolution and the Churches
  5. Americanization and the Reformed Church
     1. An American Synod
     2. The Language Question
  6. Disestablishment in New England (1692-1833)

• Chapter 5: Pietism and the GreatAwakenings (1675-1835)
  1. Pietism in Europe
     1. Spener
     2. Zinzendorf and the Moravians
     3. Wesley and the Methodists
  2. The Moravians and the Reformed in Pennsylvania
  3. Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening
     1. Jonathan Edwards
     2. The Great Awakening
     3. Parties within Congregationalism
        1. Old Lights
        2. New Lights
        3. Old Calvinists
        4. Strict Congregationalists
  4. Otterbein and the German Reformed Church
  5. The Second Great Awakening (1795-1835)
     1. Revivals
     2. Voluntary Societies
     3. Female Societies
  6. Revival Theology
     1. Nathaniel Taylor
     2. Charles Grandison Finney
  7. Winebrenner and the Reformed Church

• Chapter 6: Denominational Realignment in the Second Great Awakening
  1. 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
  2. The Unitarian Schism
     1. Jedidiah Morse and the Contest at Harvard
     2. The Trinitarian Strategy
        1. a religious journal
        2. a school to train ministers
        3. connectionalism
        4. new churches in Boston
     3. The War of Ideas
     4. The Battle in the Courts
     5. Division of the Churches

• Chapter 7: Mission to the World (1795-1870)
  1. 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
  2. The Missions
     1. Cherokee and Choctaw
     2. Hawaii
     3. Western Asia
     4. Germans in Russia
     5. Samoa
     6. Dakota
  3. Mission Theory

• Chapter 8: The Multiple Fruit of Missions (1800-1870)
  1. The Sunday School
  2. Gallaudet and the Deaf and Dumb
  3. Peace
  4. Women in Mission and in the Church
     1. Female Missionaries
     2. Female Education
     3. Women Praying and Preaching

• Chapter 9: Conquering the Valley and Beyond (1790-1870)
  A. Congregational/Presbyterian Expansion
  1. Plans of Union and Accommodation
     
  2. Missionary Society of Connecticut
  3. American Home Missionary Society
  4. 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. Evangelical Protestants
  Reflections on Chapters five through nine

• Chapter 10: Slavery and Freedom
  1. African Americans and Slavery Before the Abolitionist Movement
     1. Lemuel Haynes and Phyllin Wheatley
     2. Slavery and the Slave Trade
     3. Early Opponents
     4. Post-Revolutionary Movement of Abolition
  2. 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
  3. Reconstruction
     1. Fortress Monroe
     2. Schools
     3. Higher Education
     4. Jubilee Singers
     5. African American Congregations
     6. Summary

• Chapter 11: Romanticism
  1. The Mercersburg Movement
     1. John Williamson Nevin
     2. Philip Schaff
     3. Mercersburg Theology
     4. Reformed Church in the South On Its Own
     5. Liturgical Controversy
     6. Opposition
     7. Peace Commission
  2. Horace Bushnell
  3. The Aesthetic in Religion

• Chapter 12: Liberal Protestantism (1870-1920)
  1. A New Theology for a New Day
     1. Preparers of the Way
        1. Austin Craig
        2. Edward Beecher
        3. Henry Ward Beecher
     2. Progressive Orthodoxy
     3. Social Gospel
  2. The Churches Express Their Faith
     1. Cardinal Principles of the Christian Church
     2. Evangelical Catechism ands Commentary
     3. Congregational Confessions
     4. Peace Commission Report
  3. Changing Piety
     1. Changing Practices
     2. What Would Jesus Do?
  4. Liberal Protestantism is Challenged
     1. Karl Otto
     2. The Andover Controversies
     3. George Gilbert
  5. Fundamentalism
     1. Dwight Moody
     2. Cyrus Scofield

• Chapter 13: Denominational Formation (1863-1920)
  1. National Organization
     1. Reformed General Synod
     2. Christian Connection
     3. Evangelical Synod
     4. National Council of Congregational Churches
     5. Synods, Districts and Conferences
     6. Educationasl Institutions
     7. Religious Journalism
  2. Reaching Out for Christian Unity
     1. Lutheran and 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 Presbytrerian
     10. Local Cooperation and Federation
  3. Women in the Churches
     1. Formation of Women's Mission Boards
     2. Elimination of Women's Mission Boards
     3. Lay Officers
     4. Ordained Women

• Chapter 14: Mission to America (1870-1920)
  1. Inner Mission
  2. Ministry to Children and Youth
     1. Parochial Schools
     2. Sunday School
     3. Ministry to Youth
  3. African Americans in the South after Reconstruction
     1. Schools
     2. Churches
     3. Color Line debate - Part 1
     4. Color Line debate - Part 2
  4. American Indian Missions
     1. Dakota Mission
     2. Fort Berthold
     3. The Ho Cak
     4. Reflection

• Chapter 15: The New Americans (1870-1920)
  1. Germans from Russia
     1. The Brotherhood in Russia
     2. Immigration
     3. German Russians in the German Reformed Church
     4. German Congregationalists
  2. The Chinese in America
  3. Congregationalists and Mission Covenant
  4. Magyar Reformed in Hungary and America
     1. Survival and Renewal in Hungary
     2. In America
  5. Armenians in Turkey and America
  6. The Japanese in Japan and in America
     1. Mission to Japan
     2. Japanese in America
  Summary

• Chapter 16: The American Church In Its Global Context (1870-1920)
  1. Administration of Foreign Missions
     1. Mission Controversy in the Evangelical Synod
     2. Evolving Mission Policy in the ABCFM
     3. Tainted Money
     4. Near East Relief
  2. Missions and Churches
     1. Haoles and Hawaiians
     2. Hawaii's Ethnic Mosaic
     3. The Church in Samoa
     4. Puerto Rico
     5. The Philippines
  3. War and Peace
     1. The Peace Movement 1861-1917
     2. War Fever
     3. The Evangelical Synod and World War I

• Chapter 17: The Church Faces a Changing World (1920-1960)
  1. The Christian Faith in a Changing World
     1. Neo-Orthodoxy
     2. The Niebuhrs
     3. Fundamentalists and Evangelicals
     4. Piety and Worship
  2. Mission to the World
     1. Re-Thinking Missions
     2. Frank Laubach
  3. 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
  4. Social Issues
     Summary

• Chapter 18: The Road to Union (1920-1966)
  1. Congregationalists, Evangelical Protestants, and Christians
     1. Evangelical Protestants
     2. Christians and Congregationalists
  2. The Evangelical and Reformed Church
  3. The United Church of Christ
     1. The Rocky Road to Cleveland
     2. Defining trhe New Denomination
     3. Creating a United Church
     4. Calvin Synod
     5. Dissident Groups
     6. Other Interssted Groups
     7. What Union Meant to the Churches

• Chapter 19: The New United Church: Addressing Social Issues (1957-2003)
  1. Civil Rights
     1. Institute at Fisk
     2. Civil Rights Movement
     3. Black Power
     4. Wilmington Ten
     5. African Americans in the UCC Today
  2. Peace and Justice
  3. Feminism
     1. Women's Organization in the UCC
     2. Female Clergy
     3. Inclusive Language
  4. Homosexuality
     1. Ordination of Homosexuals
     2. The Church Takes a Stand
     3. Open and Affirming

• Chapter 20: The New United Church: Piety, Theology and Ecumenism (1957-2003)
  1. Theology in the New United Church
     1. Sound Teaching
     2. Theological Ferment
     3. Theologians
        1. Walter Brueggemann
        2. Fred Herzog
        3. Susan Thistlethwaite
        4. Donald Bloesch
  2. 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?
  3. The New United Church of Christ and the Ecumenical Movement
     1. Ecumenical Partnership
     2. Consultation on Church Union
     3. Kirchengemeinschaft
     4. Formula of Agreement

• Chapter 21: The New United Church: Its Mission and Structure (1957-2003)
  1. Racial/Ethnic Pluralism
     1. Samoan Congregationslists in America
     2. Filipino Churches
     3. American Indian Ministry
     4. Hispanic Ministry
     5. Pacific Asian American Ministries
  2. Evangelism and Church Growth
  3. Millard Fuller
  4. The Nature of Ministry
  5. Structural Issues
     1. Institutions
     2. Conferences
     3. Restructuring

• Suggestions for Further Reading