The last Puritans :

Bendroth, Margaret Lamberts, 1954-

The last Puritans : mainline Protestants and the power of the past / Margaret Bendroth. - 1st [edition]. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Protestant saints: the power of congregational memory -- Sons of the pilgrim fathers: how Congregationalists claimed their history -- The Boston Council of 1865 -- The Pilgrim Jubilee and what came of it -- Scribes and scholars: the careers of Henry Martyn Dexter and Williston Walker -- Coming to terms with the pilgrim fathers -- The end of one epoch and the beginning of another -- History and the politics of merger -- History and mainline Protestants: the United Church of Christ comes of age.

9781469624020 1469624028

22573/ctt14r82h6 JSTOR


Congregational churches--History.--United States
Protestantism--History.--United States
Congregational churches.
Protestantism.
RELIGION / Christianity / Presbyterian
RELIGION / Christianity / Calvinist


United States--Church history.
United States.


Church history.
History.
Electronic books.

BX7137 / .B46 2015eb

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