Rohrer challenges the traditional interpretation of the decline of the Congregationalists. Drawing heavily on unpublished manuscripts, the author shows that, rather than failing to adapt to the democratizing culture of the western migration, they were in fact aggressive frontier evangelists. In the course of proving this, Rohrer overturns many generalizations about the Congretationalists, and challenges conventional wisdom about church growth and religious declension.
| ISBN: | 9780195091663 |
| Publication date: | 31st August 1995 |
| Author: | James R Visiting Professor, Visiting Professor, Presbyterian Bible College, Taiwan Rohrer |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 212 pages |
| Series: | Religion in America |
| Genres: |
Calvinist, Reformed and Presbyterian Churches Christianity Religious mission and Religious Conversion History of religion |