The Uneasy Center: Reformed Christianity in AnteBellum America Book

	Preface
	Introduction. Pre-Reformation Christianity in the West	1
	Jewish Roots and the Early Religion of Jesus	1
	Canon and Polity	5
	The Great Doctrinal Settlements	10
	Salvation Doctrines	15
	Worship	19
	The Separation of Rome and Constantinople	25
	Reform Challenges	28
1	Reformed Christianity in Britain and Colonial America	32
	Reform of the English Church	32
	Reform in Scotland and Ulster	39
	Anglicanism in Colonial America	43
	Congregationalists	48
	Presbyterians	53
	Baptists	58
	Continental Reformed Denominations	60
2	Methodist Origins	63
	Evangelical Christianity: Some Definitions	63
	John Wesley and His Doctrines	65
	Methodist Institutions	71
	Methodism in America	75
	The Methodist Episcopal Church	77
	The Methodist Style	84
3	Theological Foundations	90
	Jonathan Edwards	92
	Rationalism and Humanism	98
	Samuel Hopkins	101
	The Hopkinsian System	105
4	The Age of Evangelical Hegemony	114
	American Denominationalism	115
	American Revivalism	119
	Denominational Competition	130
	Denominational Cooperation	137
	The Sunday School	143
5	Outside the Evangelical Consensus	147
	The Founding of a Protestant Episcopal Church	148
	Episcopal Decline and Recovery	152
	The Divided Soul of Episcopalians	156
	The German Reformed Church and the Mercersburg Theology	169
	The Dutch Reformed Church	176
6	Reformed Worship	183
	Early Protestant Worship	183
	Worship in the British Churches	189
	Early Worship in America	194
	Music in Reformed Churches	197
7	Reformed Theology at Maturity: Taylor, Hodge, and Bushnell	210
	Nathaniel Taylor	211
	Charles Hodge	220
	Horace Bushnell	233
8	Storm Clouds on the Evangelical Horizon	250
	Sectional Divisions among Methodists and Baptists	250
	The Presbyterian and Congregational Plan of Union	256
	The New School-Old School Controversy	262
	Biblical Scholarship	268
	The Impact of the New Geology	280
	Afterword	286
	Notes	299
	Index	311