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Genre/Form: | Congress Church history Conference papers and proceedings History Actes de congrès Congresses Congrès |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: American quest for the primitive church. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1988 (OCoLC)578908543 Online version: American quest for the primitive church. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1988 (OCoLC)609876213 |
Material Type: | Conference publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard T Hughes |
ISBN: | 0252060296 9780252060298 025201538X 9780252015380 |
OCLC Number: | 17548912 |
Description: | viii, 257 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: On recovering the theme of recovery / Richard T. Hughes -- pt. 1. Puritanism and the Enlightenment: Biblical primitivism: an approach to New England Puritanism / Theodore Dwight Bozeman -- Roger Williams and "the restauration of Zion" / C. Leonard Allen -- Primitivism in the American Enlightenment / Winton U. Solberg -- Puritan and Enlightenment primitivism: a response / E. Brooks Holifield and Sidney E. Mead -- pt. 2. Biblical scholarship and fundamentalism: Biblical primitivism in American biblical scholarship, 1630-1870 / Thomas H. Olbricht -- Contending for the faith once delivered: primitivist impulses in American fundamentalism / Joel A. Carpenter -- Primitivism in fundamentalism and American biblical scholarship: a response / Mark Noll -- pt. 3. European traditions in America: "Biblical primitivism" in early American Methodism / Albert C. Outler -- Biblical primitivism in the American Baptist tradition / Robert T. Handy -- Restoration ideology among early Episcopal Evangelicals / David L. Holmes -- Perplexity over a protean principle: a response / Henry Warner Bowden -- pt. 4. Indigenous American traditions: The reality of the Restoration and the Restoration ideal in the Mormon tradition / Jan Shipps -- Playing for keeps: the primitivist impulse in early Pentecostalism / Grant Wacker -- The Restoration ideal in the Churches of Christ / Bill J. Humble -- Comparing three approaches to Restorationism: a response / Samuel S. Hill, Jr. |
Responsibility: | Richard T. Hughes, editor. |
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"The quest for the restoration of the church's pristine purity is one of the most powerful forces in American Protestantism, yet one of the most neglected by scholars of American religious history. This volume is ground-breaking in its attempt to discuss the pervasiveness of this concept in the American religious landscape... The list of contributors to this volume reads like a Who's Who of American religious historiography." -- W. Glenn Jonas, Journal of the American Academy of Religion Read more...

