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The Christian Century and the Rise of Mainline Protestantism
Since the 1972 publication of Dean M. Kelley's Why Conservative Churches Are Growing, discussion of the Protestant mainline has focused on the tradition's decline. Elesha J. Coffman's The Christian Century and the Rise of Mainline Protestantism tells a different story, using the lens of the influential periodical The Christian Century to examine the rise of the mainline to a position of cultural prominence in the first half of the twentieth century.
The Religion of Protestants
This is the first paperback edition of The Religion of Protestants (originally published in 1982). This revised and extended version of the Ford Lectures for 1979 takes the form of a series of studies of the constituent elements of post-Reformation ecclesiastical and religious life: crown, bishops, clergy, magistrates, and people. A concluding chapter investigates the extent of voluntary and semi-private religious activity in early Stuart England. Professor Collinson emphasizes the integrity of the Church rather than its structural weaknesses and divisions into Puritan and Anglican tendencies, and he stresses the conservative rather than the 'radical’ influence exerted by the protestant religion on society.
Being Protestant in Reformation Britain
The Reformation was about ideas and power, but it was also about real human lives. Alec Ryrie provides the first comprehensive account of what it actually meant to live a Protestant life in England and Scotland between 1530 and 1640, drawing on a rich mixture of contemporary devotional works, sermons, diaries, biographies, and autobiographies to uncover the lived experience of early modern Protestantism. Beginning from the surprisingly urgent, multifaceted emotions of Protestantism, Ryrie explores practices of prayer, of family and public worship, and of reading and writing, tracking them through the life course from childhood through conversion and vocation to the deathbed. He examines what...
Protestantism: A Very Short Introduction
Presents an accessible history of Protestantism from Martin Luther to the present day, focusing on worldwide developments and examining not only European and North American aspects of Protestant journeys, but also the importance of Protestant expansion into the non-Western world.
A House Divided
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The Development of the Church
Philip Schaff, the founder of church history in America, was widely celebrated in his later career. Soon after his arrival from Germany, however, his Principle of Protestantism (1845) was stiffly denounced for its favorable attitude toward Roman Catholicism, harsh critique of denominationalism, and theory of historical progress leading to a church that would be both Evangelical and Catholic. Charles Hodge's review of the book provided the most cogent analysis of its implications for American Christianity. Schaff further clarified his understanding of progress in What Is Church History? (1846) and "German Theology and the Church Question" (1853). Together, these early writings of the Mercersb...
