The Making of an American Church: Essays Commemorating the Jubilee Year of the Evangelical United Brethren Church (Volume 23) (Pietist and Wesleyan Studies, 23) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810858096 ISBN 13: 9780810858091

Publisher: Scarecrow Press, 2007

Synopsis

The life of the Evangelical United Brethren Church (E.U.B.) was short? less than 22 years? yet this relatively small German-American denomination had a significant impact on Protestant Christianity. It developed a leading role in ecumenical movements in the United States, it succeeded in presenting programs that have been presented to the highest level of United Methodism? the General Conference? and it has made important contributions to scholarship in church history by preserving and making available to researchers an outstanding collection of materials. The essays gathered together in this book were taken from papers presented at a conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the joining of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ and the Evangelical Church to create the E.U.B. denomination. The papers emphasize the development of the merged church, its theology, its concept of ministry, the history of the denomination in Europe, and the mission programs of the denomination. The Making of an American Church: Essays Commemorating the Jubilee Year of the Evangelical United Brethren Church is a unique collection of papers by E.U.B. scholars and general church officers that combines scholarly rigor with an involvement in the events they discuss.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert L. Frey spent forty years in higher education, taught history for 24 years, and served as an academic dean and vice president for 16 years. He is the author of three books and numerous articles on church history and education.

Review:

The church only lasted 22 years but had a significant impact on Protestant Christianity. Church leaders and trained historians explore facets of the church in 13 essays from a November 1996 conference in Dayton, Ohio called by the United Methodist Historical Society to commemorate the centennial of the merger that created the church. (Reference and Research Book News, November 2007)

About this edition

• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0810858096
• ISBN 13: 9780810858091
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214
• Editor: Frey Robert L.