United Methodism and American Culture Volume 1 Connectionalism: Ecclesiology, Mission, and Identity: v. 1 - Softcover

Campbell, Dennis M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0687021898 ISBN 13: 9780687021895

Publisher: ABNDP - Abingdon Press, 1997

Synopsis

In a time when the United Methodist Connectional System is being questioned throughout the denomination, this volume explains the roots of the system, its rationale, and its success. Chapter essays: Connectionalism and Itinerancy; Constitutional Order in United Methodism and American Culture; African American Methodists; Methodist Identities and the Founding of Methodist Universities; Redesigning Methodist Churches: Auditorium Style Sanctuaries; Wesley's Legacy of Social Holiness; United Methodist Campus Ministry; The Effect of Mergers on American Wesleyan Denominations; Determinants of the Denominational Mission Funding Crisis; and others.

About this title

About the Author:

William B. Lawrence is dean and professor of American Church History at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University (Dallas), where he has served since 2002. Dr. Lawrence is an ordained elder in the North Texas Annual Conference. He is the author of Sundays in New York and Methodism in Recovery, and he has co-edited numerous books, including Connectionalism: Ecclesiology, Mission and Identity; The People(s) Called Methodist: Forms and Reforms of Their Life; and Doctrines and Disciplines. Additionally, Dr. Lawrence is a member of the Judicial Council of The United Methodist Church.

About this edition

• Publisher: ABNDP - Abingdon Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0687021898
• ISBN 13: 9780687021895
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 378