Connectionalism :  ecclesiology, mission, and identity /  [print] 
Russell E. Richey, Dennis M. Campbell, William B. Lawrence, editors. 
 - Nashville, Tennessee :  Abingdon Press,  (c)1997. 
 - viii, 364 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> Introduction  Connectionalism and itinerancy : Wesleyan principles and practice  Constitutional order in United Methodism and American culture  African American Methodists : a remnant and a reminder  Methodist identities and the founding of Methodist universities  Redesigning Methodist churches : auditorium-style sactuaries and Akron-plan Sunday schools in romanesque costume, 1875-1925  Wesley's legacy of social holiness : the Methodist settlement movement and American social reform  United Methodist campus ministry and the Methodist student movement  Effect of mergers on American Wesleyan denominations  God's mission and United Methodism  Determinants of the denominational-mission funding crisis : an evaluation of three hypotheses  Understanding local mission : congregational models and public religion in United Methodist churches  Methodists on the margins : "Self-authoring" religious identity  Russell E. Richey  --  Richard P. Heitzenrater  --  William Johnson Everett and Thomas Edward Frank --  William B. McClain  --  Bradley J. Longfield  --  Kenneth E. Rowe  --  Sarah Sloan Kreutziger  --  Robert C. Monk  --  Robert W. Sledge  --  Mark W. Wethington  --  Charles E. Zech --  Penny Edgell Becker  --  Penny Long Marier and C. Kirk Hadaway. 
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<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>97038665 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>United Methodist Church (U.S.)--Government.<br/>United Methodist Church (U.S.)--History.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Methodist Church--History.--United States<br/>Church and culture--United States.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BX8331.L424.C666 1997