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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 | |