This is the reissue of a classic interpretive essay in the history of American Christianity and the development of the United Church of Christ. Louis Gunnemann's original text is a narrative account of the union of the Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Congregational Christian churches in the 1950s through the United Church of Christ in the late 1970s. With a new foreword and a new chapter by Charles Shelby Rooks, this expanded edition brings the story of the UCC up to date. This volume is a must for anyone interested in the history and development of this vitally important Protestant denomination.
This is the reissue of a classic interpretive essay in the history of American Christianity and the development of the United Church of Christ. Louis Gunnemann's original text is a narrative account of the union of the Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Congregational Christian churches in the 1950s through the United Church of Christ in the late 1970s. With a new foreword and a new chapter by Charles Shelby Rooks, this expanded edition brings the story of the UCC up to date. This volume is a must for anyone interested in the history and development of this vitally important Protestant denomination.
Shaping of the United Church of Christ: An Essay in the History of American Christianity
280Shaping of the United Church of Christ: An Essay in the History of American Christianity
280Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780829813456 |
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Publisher: | Pilgrim Press, The/United Church Press |
Publication date: | 01/01/1999 |
Pages: | 280 |
Sales rank: | 840,189 |
Product dimensions: | 5.49(w) x 8.26(h) x 0.77(d) |