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Author Rohrer, James R. (James Russell), 1960-

Title Keepers of the covenant : frontier missions and the decline of Congregationalism, 1774-1818 / James R. Rohrer
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (x, 201 pages)
Series Religion in America series
Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
Contents 1. Historians and Congregational Evangelism; 2. The Missionary Impulse; 3. The Committee on Missions, 1792-1797; 4. The Connecticut Missionary Society; 5. CMS Missionaries and Revivalism; 6. The CMS and the Republican Frontier; 7. The CMS and Republican Religion; 8. Congregational Declension Reconsidered; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary The first book-length treatment of its topic, this study is aimed at abolishing the old cliche that Congregationalism failed to adapt to the democratizing culture of the westward migration. Drawing on hundreds of previously unused letters, journals, and sermons, the author argues that Congregational missionaries were aggressive evangelists who successfully adjusted to the egalitarian demands of the early republican frontier. Keepers of the Covenant critically examines the various explanations for the decline of Congregationalism after the American Revolution, and in the process, overturns gene
Analysis Congregational churches History
United States
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-193) and index
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Subject Missionary Society of Connecticut -- History
SUBJECT Missionary Society of Connecticut fast
Subject Missions -- Northeastern States
Congregational churches -- Northeastern States -- History -- 18th century
Congregational churches -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Presbyterian.
Congregational churches
Missions
Congregationalisme.
SUBJECT Northeastern States -- Church history -- 18th century
Northeastern States -- Church history -- 19th century
Subject Northeastern States
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780195357950
0195357957