New Wine in Old Wineskins: Evangelicals and Liberals in a Small-Town ChurchExploring the roots of resurgent evangelicalism in the United States, Stephen Warner tells the story of one small-town church from 1959 to 1982, the Presbyterian Church of Mendocino, California. This book chronicles the actions of the men and women who struggled with and against one another to shape their church. |
Contents
| 5 | |
A Quarter Century Distilled | 11 |
The Action in American Protestantism | 33 |
Sojourn in the Field | 66 |
Advent of the Sixties | 91 |
The Gathering Storm | 98 |
5 | 108 |
Antioch Ranch as a Patriarchal Household | 114 |
Mendocino Presbyterian | 191 |
Elective Parochialism | 201 |
Harvest of Souls | 208 |
Movement and Institution | 214 |
Separate Ways | 235 |
Humiliation | 248 |
The Shape of the Vessel | 256 |
Of Wine and Wineskins | 282 |
Converting the Neighborhood | 122 |
Fellowship of Independent Households | 128 |
The Fellowship and the Church | 134 |
Mass Conversion 19711972 | 142 |
Spiritual Bootcamp 19721974 | 150 |
Evangelical Victory in the Church | 156 |
Church Growth and Decline in Context | 173 |
The Evangelical Ethic and the Spirit | 289 |
Political Implications | 297 |
Notes | 305 |
Glossary | 322 |
References | 328 |
Acknowledgments | 341 |
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| Title | New Wine in Old Wineskins: Evangelicals and Liberals in a Small-Town Church |
| Author | R. Stephen Warner |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 1988 |
| ISBN | 0520910737, 9780520910737 |
| Length | 367 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Christianity / General |
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