
The Methodist Conference in America
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(2011) Russell E. Richey is Dean Emeritus of Candler School of Theology and the William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor of Church History Emeritus in Atlanta, Georgia.
Content
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: The Conference in Methodism
- The Wesleyan Conference
- Conference's Constitutional Function
- Multivalence
- Chapter 2: The American Conference
- The First Conferences: Polity, Fraternity, and Revival
- Tensions among the Functions
- Chapter 3: From 1778 to 1784
- Space, Time, and Gravity
- Gravity and the Relativity of Space and Time
- Chapter 4: 1784 and Beyond
- Christmas Conference
- The Governing Conference
- The Baltimore Conference System
- Multiple Conferences-Fraternity and Revival
- The Council
- Chapter 5: General Conference
- The Shattered Fraternity
- Republicanism and Fraternity
- Chapter 6: Living out the New Order
- Boundaries and Belonging
- Quarterly and Camp Meetings
- Chapter 7: Safeguarding Methodist Polity
- A Delegated General Conference
- Drawing Conference Color and Language Lines
- Chapter 8: Conferencing the Continent
- Conferences West
- Committees and Rules
- Chapter 9: Fraternity Versus Polity
- The Election of Presiding Elders?
- Enlarging the Fraternity?
- The Methodist Protestants and Other Divisions
- Chapter 10: Zion Divided Again
- Sectional Crisis
- Is Conference "The Sun in our Orderly & Beautiful System"?
- Division
- Chapter 11: Fratricide and Business
- The Political Conference
- "End of the Spiritual Part"?
- Lay Conferencing
- Chapter 12: Self-Preoccupation and Ceremony
- Conference Self-Awareness
- Ceremonial Reclaiming Conference
- "And Are We Yet Alive"
- Chapter 13: The Reconstruction of Methodism
- Conference 'Fraternity,' 'Revival,' and 'Polity'
- Conference Boundaries and Calendar
- Conferences Galore: Sorority, Holiness, Sunday School
- Chapter 14: Nationalization, Formalization, Incorporation
- Consolidation
- 'Formal Fraternity'
- Defending Fraternal Borders
- Professionalization: Conference and Theological Education
- Chapter 15: Growth or Decay?
- Word, Order, and Sacrament?
- Local, Quarterly, or District Conferences?
- The Local Church
- "Nothing Against Them"
- Professional Formation and Assessment
- Chapter 16: Jurisdictioned Fraternity
- Unification: Fraternity by Race and Region
- 1939: Ensmalling the Church?
- Chapter 17: Conference to Caucus: Mergers and Pluralism
- Conference 'Brotherhood'?
- The Whole in the Part
- The Part in the Whole
- The Unconferencing of Ministry
- Chapter 18: Conference as a Means of Grace: A Theological Afterword
- Intimations
- Time, Space, and Gravity
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index
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