United Methodism and American Culture: Ecclesiology Mission and Identity: v. 1

In a time when the United Methodist Connectional System is being questioned throughout the denomination this volume explains the roots of the system its rationale and its success. Chapter essays:Connectionalism and Itinerancy; Constitutional Order in United Methodism and American Culture; African American Methodists; Methodist Identities and the Founding of Methodist Universities; Redesigning Methodist Churches: Auditorium Style Sanctuaries; Wesleys Legacy of Social Holiness; United Methodist Campus Ministry; The Effect of Mergers on American Wesleyan Denominations; Determinants of the Denominational Mission Funding Crisis; and others.