{"product_id":"9781426719370","title":"The Methodist Experience in America Volume I: A History","description":"Beginning in 1760, this comprehensive history charts the growth and development of the Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren church family up and through the year 2000. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cp\u003eExtraordinarily well-documented study with elaborate notes that will guide the reader to recent and standard literature on the numerous topics, figures, developments, and events covered.  The volume is a companion to and designed to be used with \u003cem\u003eTHE METHODIST EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA: A SOURCEBOOK\u003c\/em\u003e, for which it provides background, context and interpretation. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eContents include:\u003cbr\u003e Launching the Methodist Movements 1760-1768\u003cbr\u003e Structuring the Immigrant Initiatives 1769-1778\u003cbr\u003e Making Church 1777-1784\u003cbr\u003e Constituting Methodism 1784-1792\u003cbr\u003e Spreaking Scriptural Holiness 1792-1816\u003cbr\u003e Snapshot I- Methodism in 1816: Baltimore 1816\u003cbr\u003e Building for Ministry and Nuture 1816-1850s\u003cbr\u003e Dividing by Mission, Ethnicity, Gender, and Vision 1816-1850s\u003cbr\u003e Dividing over Slavery, Region, Authority, and Race 1830-1860s\u003cbr\u003e Embracing the War Cause(s) 1860-1865\u003cbr\u003e Reconstructing Methodism(s) 1866-1884\u003cbr\u003e Snapshot II- Methodism in 1884: Wilker-Barre, PA 1884\u003cbr\u003e Reshaping the Church for Mission 1884-1939\u003cbr\u003e Taking on the World 1884-1939\u003cbr\u003e Warring for World Order and Against Worldliness Within 1930-1968\u003cbr\u003e Snapshot III- Methodism in 1968: Denver 1968\u003cbr\u003e Merging and Reappraising 1968-1984\u003cbr\u003e Holding Fast\/Pressing On 1984-2000\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA wide-angled narrative that attends to religious life at the local level, to missions and missionary societies , to justice struggles, to camp and quarterly meetings, to the Sunday school and catechisms, to architecture and worship, to higher education, to hospitals and homes, to temperance, to deaconesses and to Methodist experiences  in war and in peace-making \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA volume that attends critically to Methodism’s dilemmas over and initiatives with regard to race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and relation to culture \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA documentation and display of  the rich diversity of the Methodist experience\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA retelling of the contests over and evolution of Methodist\/EUB organization, authority, ministerial orders and ethical\/doctrinal emphases  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Abingdon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124515815664,"sku":"9781426719370","price":52.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781426719370_p0.jpg?v=1763743891","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781426719370","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}