THE SHAPING OF AMERICAN CONGREGATIONALISM is a fresh retelling of the denomination's pilgrimage through history. This comprehenisve chronicle is informed by the latest scholarship and bolstered by contemporary insights from a distinguished historian. John von Rohr has captured the spirit and life of a significant and influential American denomination from its beginnings in Great Britain to its participation in forming the United Church of Christ.
THE SHAPING OF AMERICAN CONGREGATIONALISM is a fresh retelling of the denomination's pilgrimage through history. This comprehenisve chronicle is infor...
A comprehensive account of the major theological themes in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century Puritanism of England and New England as seen through the concept ""covenant of grace."" The covenant of grace, von Rohr argues, enabled Puritanism to affirm both a continuation of Calvinistic predestinationism and an emergent voluntaristic pietism, pastorally both the absolute and conditional promises of God. An extensive array of primary source material is used in substantiating the author's thesis. d: 2005, Portland Oregon. John von Rohr was Professor of Historical Theology and...
A comprehensive account of the major theological themes in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century Puritanism of England and New England as s...
