The last Puritans : mainline Protestants and the power of the past - Bendroth, Margaret Lamberts, 1954- (Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2015)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Keywords: Congregational churches -- United States -- History; Protestantism -- United States -- History; United States -- Church history; Congregational churches; Protestantism; United States; RELIGION / Christianity / Presbyterian; RELIGION / Christianity / Calvinist; Church history; History; Electronic books