A History of American Christianity

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Bacon, Leonard Woolsey, 1830-1907

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E-text prepared by Dave Morgan, Daniel J. Mount, Lisa Reigel, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net/c/) from digital material generously made available by the Christian Classics Ethereal Library ( www.ccel.org/)

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English

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BR: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity

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United States -- Religion

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20160

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Release Date

December 22, 2006

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.E-text prepared by Dave Morgan, Daniel J. Mount, Lisa Reigel, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net/c/ ) from digital material generously made available by the Christian Classics Ethereal Library ( http://www.ccel.org/ ) — The American Church History Series — American Church History — A HISTORY OF AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY — BY
2. 2.LEONARD WOOLSEY BACON — New York The Christian Literature Co.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.A HISTORY OF AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY.
5. 5.CHAPTER I. — PROVIDENTIAL PREPARATIONS FOR THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA—SPIRITUAL REVIVAL THROUGHOUT CHRISTENDOM, AND ESPECIALLY IN THE CHURCH OF SPAIN.
6. 6.CHAPTER II. — SPANISH CONQUEST—THE PROPAGATION, DECAY, AND DOWNFALL OF SPANISH CHRISTIANITY.
7. 7.CHAPTER III. — THE PROJECT OF FRENCH EMPIRE AND EVANGELIZATION—ITS WIDE AND RAPID SUCCESS—ITS SUDDEN EXTINCTION.
8. 8.CHAPTER IV. — ANTECEDENTS OF PERMANENT CHRISTIAN COLONIZATION—THE DISINTEGRATION OF CHRISTENDOM—CONTROVERSIES—PERSECUTIONS.
9. 9.CHAPTER V. — THE PURITAN BEGINNINGS OF THE CHURCH IN VIRGINIA—ITS DECLINE ALMOST TO EXTINCTION.
10. 10.CHAPTER VI. — THE NEIGHBOR COLONIES TO VIRGINIA—MARYLAND AND THE CAROLINAS.
11. 11.CHAPTER VII. — THE DUTCH CALVINIST COLONY ON THE HUDSON AND THE SWEDISH LUTHERAN COLONY ON THE DELAWARE—THEY BOTH FALL UNDER THE SHADOW OF GREAT BRITAIN.
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. — THE PLANTING OF THE CHURCH IN NEW ENGLAND—PILGRIM AND PURITAN.
13. 13.CHAPTER IX. — THE MIDDLE COLONIES: THE JERSEYS, DELAWARE, AND PENNSYLVANIA—THE QUAKER COLONIZATION—GEORGIA.
14. 14.CHAPTER X. — THE AMERICAN CHURCH ON THE EVE OF THE GREAT AWAKENING—A GENERAL VIEW.
15. 15.CHAPTER XI. — THE GREAT AWAKENING
16. 16.CHAPTER XII. — CLOSE OF THE COLONIAL ERA—THE GERMAN CHURCHES—THE BEGINNINGS OF THE METHODIST CHURCH.
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII. — RECONSTRUCTION.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV. — THE SECOND AWAKENING.
19. 19.CHAPTER XV. — ORGANIZED BENEFICENCE.
20. 20.CHAPTER XVI. — CONFLICTS OF THE CHURCH WITH PUBLIC WRONGS.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVII. — A DECADE OF CONTROVERSIES AND SCHISMS.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII. — THE GREAT IMMIGRATION.
23. 23.CHAPTER XIX. — THE CIVIL WAR—ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES.
24. 24.CHAPTER XX. — AFTER THE WAR.
25. 25.CHAPTER XXI. — THE CHURCH IN THEOLOGY AND LITERATURE.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXII. — TENDENCIES TOWARD A MANIFESTATION OF THE UNITY OF THE AMERICAN CHURCH.
27. 27.INDEX.
28. 28.Transcriber's Notes:

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