The Dawn of American Methodism
The Dawn of American Methodism

Author: Richard Pyke

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2016-06-22

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1532600291

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"The author of this book has accomplished a difficult and delicate task. He has condensed within a comparatively brief record the story of an historic era in Methodism, and he has done this without sacrificing any essential element of the story." -- From the foreword

The Rise of Theological Liberalism and the Decline of American Methodism
The Rise of Theological Liberalism and the Decline of American Methodism

Author: James V. Heidinger (II)

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781628244021

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"Once a strong, vital, and growing denomination, the United Methodist Church is now barely recognizable after more than four decades of demoralization and membership decline. What has gone wrong? In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the American church saw the rise of "theological liberalism," a religious system that intended to respond to new scientific and intellectual currents that were sweeping across the culture. Instead, liberalism not only challenged, but often displaced the substance of the church's doctrine and teaching, accommodating it to the new intellectual milieu of secularism and rationalism. In The Rise of Theological Liberalism and the Decline of American Methodism, James Heidinger discusses the rise of liberalism in America, its anti-supernatural focuses, and the resulting transition in Wesleyan theology. While there are undoubtedly many dimensions to the decline of a denomination, Heidinger suggests we look no further than theological liberalism as the driving force behind the fall of the once-mighty United Methodist Church"--

A Will to Choose
A Will to Choose

Author: J. Gordon Melton

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780742552654

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A Will to Choose traces the history of African-American Methodism beginning with their emergence in the fledgling American Methodist movement in the 1760s. Responding to Methodism's anti-slavery stance, African-Americans joined the new movement in large numbers and by the end of the eighteenth century, had made up the largest minority in the Methodist church, filling positions of authority as class leaders, exhorters, and preachers. Through the first half of the nineteenth century, African Americans used the resources of the church in their struggle for liberation from slavery and racism in the secular culture. --From publisher description.