American Denominational History

Contents Preface 000 Introduction 000 1. Catholic Distinctiveness and the Challenge of American Denominationalism Amy Koehlinger 000 2. New Directions on the Congregational Way Margaret Bendroth 000 3. Presbyterians in America: Denominational History and the Quest for Identity Sean Michael Lucas 000 4. From the Margin to the Middle to Somewhere In Between: An Overview of American Baptist Historiography Keith Harper 000 5. "Everything Arose Just as the Occasion Offered": Defining Methodist Identity through the History of Methodist Polity Jennifer L. Woodruff Tait 000 6. Black Protestantism: A Historiographical Appraisal Paul Harvey 000 7. Mormon Historiography David J. Whittaker 000 8. Interpreting American Pentecostal Origins: Retrospect and Prospect Randall J. Stephens 000 9. "We're All Evangelicals Now": The Existential and Backward Historiography of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism Barry Hankins 000 Contributors 000