The Reorganizational Impulse in American Protestantism: The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) as a Case Study, 1788-1983.

by Richard Hill Reifsnyder

Paperback, 1984

Call number

BX8937

Publication

Princeton, NJ: Princeton Theological Seminary, Ph.D. dissertation.

Physical description

vii, 503 p.; 21 cm

Notes

CONTENTS
Preface.
Table of Contents.
List of Abbreviations.
I. Introduction: The Pattern of Church Reorganization as an Expression of the Theology of the Church.
II. The Formation of the General Assembly: Church Order for the New Nation (1780s).
III. The Denominational Clarification: A Delineation of the Church's True Task (1830s).
IV. Organization for Expansion (1870s).
V. The Triumph of Bureaucratic Organization in Church Life. (1920s).
VI. Ministry by Management: Restructuring for Renewal (1960s and 1970s)
VII. Conclusion: The Impact of Organizational Change.
Bibliography.

Barcode

010a084074

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