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Preface | |
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Methodist History in a Digital Age | |
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Using This Narrative with the Two MEA Volumes | |
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Complementary United Methodist Resources | |
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Introduction: Spontaneous Beginnings: 1760-68 | |
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Conversionist Religion | |
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Colonial Awakenings | |
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Otterbein and Boehm | |
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Wesleyan Initiatives | |
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Spontaneity and Order | |
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Revolutionary Methodism: 1769-84 | |
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Pilmore and Boardman | |
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Order(s) | |
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Liberty | |
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Conferencing | |
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Discipline | |
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Tensions and Controversies as Revolution Looms | |
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Collaborators, Loyalists, Pacifists, Persecuted, Patriots | |
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Americanization | |
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A First Schism | |
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Slavery and Revival | |
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Awaiting Wesleyan Directives | |
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Provisioning an American Church | |
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Planting an American Church | |
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Reforming the Continent and Spreading Scriptural Holiness: 1792-1816 | |
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The Christmas Conference | |
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Otterbein in Baltimore | |
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Race, Gender, and Gentility | |
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Bishops and Conference | |
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Multiple Conferences and the Council | |
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General Conference | |
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Republican, Primitive, and African Methodists | |
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Denominationalism | |
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United Brethren and Evangelical Association | |
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Annual Conferences and General Conference (MEC) | |
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Spirituality: In the Home and in Camp Meetings | |
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Racializing the Church | |
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A New Day Dawns | |
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Print, Nuture, Missions: 1816-50's | |
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Which Wesley to Emulate? | |
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Apologetics and the Course of Study | |
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Book Agents | |
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A Print Church | |
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Parsonages and Pastoring | |
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Sunday Worship, the Sunday School, and the Sunday School Union | |
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Missionary Societies | |
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A New Connectionalism | |
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Holiness Promotes | |
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Collegiate Enterprise | |
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Theological Seminaries and Brush Colleges | |
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Connectional Strains and Contests: 1816-50s | |
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Racial Divisions | |
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German Methodisms | |
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Women's Ministries | |
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Native American Missions | |
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Colonization and Mission to the Slaves | |
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German, Spanish, and International Missions | |
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Democratic and Anti-Episcopacy Divisions | |
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A New Church | |
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Methodism and Slavery: 1830-60s | |
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Sectionalized Methodism | |
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Methodist Abolition and an Antislavery Church | |
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General Conferences 1844 | |
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Methodist Episcopal Church, South | |
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MEC vs. MECS | |
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Further Division over Slavery | |
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A Methodist Civil War: 1860-65 | |
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Methodist Confederacy | |
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Military Defeat and Moral Victory | |
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Northern Methodist Patriotism | |
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Ministry in the Army | |
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Mobilizing Methodist Women | |
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New Caring Institutions | |
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African American Conferences | |
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National Churches | |
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Reconstructions: 1866-84 | |
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Looking Back and Looking Forward | |
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Lay Rights in Episcopal Methodism | |
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Denominational Accountability | |
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Women's Organizational Revolution | |
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Seminaries | |
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Women in Seminary and in the Pulpit | |
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Foreign and Home Missions | |
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Southern African American Methodisms | |
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"Fraternal" Relations among Methodists | |
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Local Methodism | |
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Rethinking Mission(s): 1884-1939 | |
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Reordering Foreigner Missions | |
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Lay Ministries at Home | |
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Korean Missions and Asian American Methodists | |
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Deaconess Movements | |
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Hospitals | |
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Social Christianity | |
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MFSS and the Social Creed | |
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Rethinking Missions | |
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Methodism Conflicted: 1884-1939 | |
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Laity Rights for Women | |
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Conflicts over Holiness | |
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A Methodist Social Gospel | |
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Drying up America | |
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Red Scare | |
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Liberalism and Fundamentalism | |
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MECS Women and Racial Reform | |
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Women's Ordination: Another Round | |
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Worship and Architecture | |
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Mission(s) in War and of Peace | |
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Reunification and Race | |
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Unifications and World Wars: 1939-68 | |
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War and a New World Order | |
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Holocaust, Japanese Internment, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki | |
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Ordering the New Methodist Church | |
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Jurisdictions and the Central Jurisdiction | |
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Segregated Methodism-Segregated America | |
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Progress toward Integration | |
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Uniting Methodist Women | |
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Full Clergy Rights for Women | |
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Youth Ministries | |
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The Evangelical United Brethren Church | |
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Worship: EUBC and Methodist | |
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Cold and Korean Wars | |
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Social Activism and Another "Red Scare" | |
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Ecumentical Efforts | |
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The United Methodist Church | |
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Mission Churches Exercise Options | |
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The United Methodist Church: 1968-84 | |
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Caucus and Commission | |
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African Americans in United Methodism | |
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Asian American United Methodists | |
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Latino/Hispanic United Methodism | |
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Native American United Methodism | |
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The UMC and the Vietnam War | |
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Merger Commissions-Social Principles, Structure, Doctrine | |
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New Women's Organizations | |
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Homosexuality: Cause and Caucus | |
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Elder Care | |
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Divorce | |
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Abortion | |
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Good News a Forum for Scriptural Christianity | |
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Spirituality and the Language of Praise | |
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From Bicentennial to Century's End: 1984-2000 | |
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New Doctrinal Standards | |
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Episcopal Initiatives | |
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Native/American Ministries | |
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Latino/Hispanic Ministries | |
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Korean American Ministries | |
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Abortion Policy | |
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Homosexuality | |
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Political Theologizing | |
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Christian Unity | |
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Sacraments, Worship, Hymnody | |
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Women Get the Last Word | |
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Abbreviations | |
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Index | |