The German Church on the American Frontier: A Study in the Rise of Religion Among the Germans of the West Based on the History of the Evangelischer ... Church Society of the West) 1840-1866

Since its original release in 1939 Carl Schneiders The German Church on the American Frontier has been the premier published resource on the unique Evangelischer Kirchenverein des Westens (Evangelical Church Society of the West) 1840-66 which later assumed a wider denominational identity as the German Evangelical Synod of North America the church of the Niebuhr family. Known eventually as the Evangelical Synod of North America the groups ecumenical and irenic heritage contributed to mergers that resulted in the Evangelical and Reformed Church 1934-1957 and thereafter in the United Church of Christ.