History of American Christianity

Name: History of American Christianity
Author: Leonard Woolsey Bacon

Leonard Woolsey Bacon (1830–1907) was an American clergyman and author, born in New Haven, Connecticut, son of the noted Congregational minister Leonard Bacon. He held pastorates including the Independent Presbyterian Church in Savannah, Georgia, and wrote prolifically on religious, social, and historical questions. His History of American Christianity (1897) — the work in our library — surveyed the churches of the United States from the colonial era to his own day for the American Church History series.

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First published: 1897
Category: Church History
Length: 128k words · about 9 hours
Chapters: 24
Narration: 🎧 Volunteer Readers

About this book

Leonard Woolsey Bacon's survey of Christianity in America, published in 1897 as part of the American Church History series. Bacon traces the churches from colonial beginnings through revivals, denominational growth, and the Civil War era. An informed nineteenth-century overview, written by a Congregational pastor and church historian.

Preface
Leonard Woolsey Bacon
Chapter I
Chapter II · Spanish Conquest—the Propagation, Decay, and Downfall of Spanish Christianity
Chapter III · The Project of French Empire and Evangelization—Its Wide and Rapid Success—Its Sudden Extinction
Chapter IV · Antecedents of Permanent Christian Colonization—the Disintegration of Christendom—Controversies—Persecutions
Chapter V · The Puritan Beginnings of the Church in Virginia—Its Decline Almost to Extinction 🔒
Chapter VI · The Neighbor Colonies to Virginia—Maryland and the Carolinas 🔒
Chapter VII · The Dutch Calvinist Colony on the Hudson and the Swedish Lutheran Colony on the Delaware—They Both Fall Under the Shadow of Great Britain 🔒
Chapter VIII · The Planting of the Church in New England—Pilgrim and Puritan 🔒
Chapter IX · The Middle Colonies: the Jerseys, Delaware, and Pennsylvania—the Quaker Colonization—Georgia 🔒
Chapter X · The American Church on the Eve of the Great Awakening—a General View 🔒
Chapter XI · The Great Awakening 🔒
Chapter XII · Close of the Colonial Era—the German Churches—the Beginnings of the Methodist Church 🔒
Chapter XIII · Reconstruction 🔒
Chapter XIV · The Second Awakening 🔒
Chapter XV · Organized Beneficence 🔒
Chapter XVI · Conflicts of the Church with Public Wrongs 🔒
Chapter XVII · A Decade of Controversies and Schisms 🔒
Chapter XVIII · The Great Immigration 🔒
Chapter XIX · The Civil War—Antecedents and Consequences 🔒
Chapter XX · After the War 🔒
Chapter XXI · The Church in Theology and Literature 🔒
Chapter XXII · Tendencies Toward a Manifestation of the Unity of the American Church 🔒