The Methodists / [print]
James E. Kirby, Russell E. Richey, and Kenneth E. Rowe.
- Westport, Connecticut : Greenwood Press, (c)1996.
- xv, 399 pages ; 24 cm.
Pt. 1. Bishops. American episcopacy ; Constitutional Methodism ; Two patterns of episcopacy -- Pt. 2. Conference. The Methodist conference ; General conference : a continental order ; Conference politicized ; Fratricide ; Formalization ; Pluralism -- Pt. 3. Members. Making moral Christians and moral Methodists ; Class meeting and Sunday School, 1816-1866 ; Sunday School for all, 1866-1915 ; From class meeting to probationer's class, 1866-1915 ; The Sunday School renaissance, 1915-1935 ; Making Methodist disciples, 1939-1968 -- Pt. 4. biographical dictionary of Methodist leaders. A chronology of American Methodism.