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100 1 $aBrown, William Adams,$d1865-1943,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe church in America :$bA study of the present condition and future prospects of American Protestantism /$cby William Adams Brown
264 1 $aNew York :$bMacmillan Co.,$c1922.
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505 0 $aI. The question of democracy to the church of today -- 1. The new interest in organized religion, and the reasons for it -- 2. The differing estimates of the function of the American church -- 3. Purpose and scope of the present study -- Part I. Facing the facts -- II. The religion of the average American -- 1. Opportunity afforded by the army for the study of the religion of American young men -- 2. What young America thinks about God and religion -- 3. Need of supplementing this by a study of the attitude of the older generation -- 4. What American womanhood is likely to contribute to the religion of the future -- 5. Changing conditions affecting the religion of American children -- III. Emerging problems -- 1. New elements affecting the religious situation -- the shifting of population -- immigration and the negro -- 2. The effect of modern industry -- the growth of class consciousness -- 3. Resulting problems -- the problems of race, of class, and of nationality -- IV. The wider outlook -- 1. Chief points of contact between American Christianity and international problems -- 2. Foreign missions, a factor in educating America for internationalism -- 3. Suffering as a teacher of international brotherhood and responsibility -- 4. The church and the league of nations.
505 0 $aPart II. Where to begin -- V. Where the war found the church -- 1. The American church, an experiment in democracy -- 2. Strength of the American church in numbers and resources -- distribution of this strength among the denominations -- 3. Outstanding characteristics of the American church -- its provincialism and individualism -- influence of the denominational spirit -- 4. The relation of the American church to the state -- similarities and differences in organization and spirit -- 5. Significant denominational types -- 6. Factors making for a larger and more catholic Christianity -- VI. What the church learned in the war -- 1. Differing estimates of the war work of the church -- 2. Success of the church in caring for the soldiers and in keeping up the morale of the nation -- 3. Failure of the church adequately to uphold the ideal of international brotherhood and the reasons for it -- 4. What the war taught the church concerning the need of effective agencies of unity -- 5. The organization and work of the general war-time commission -- principles controlling the work of the commission -- 6. The committee on the war and the religious outlook -- VII. Where the war left the church -- 1. The situation in which the war left the church -- 2. The interchurch world movement as the attempt to express the church's post-war ideals in action -- the reasons for its failure -- 3. Dangers to be guarded against: (a) an unreasonable condemnation of the denominational spirit; (b) the abandonment of the co-operative ideal -- 4. The present condition and prospects of the protestant ministry -- Part III. Defining the ideal -- VIII. The old religion in the new intellectual environment -- 1. Principles which determine our ideal for the church -- 2. Effect of the scientific movement upon the ideals of the older Protestantism -- 3. Negative results -- disillusionment resulting from the discovery of the limitations of pure science -- different effects of this upon different groups -- 4. Positive results -- the contribution of the scientific movement to religious faith -- 5. Consequences for the hurch as a teaching body -- IX. The church and the new social order -- 1. The church's stake in the new social order -- 2. Principles which determine the nature and limit of the church's social responsibility -- 3. Illustration of these principles in the relation of the church to industry -- 4. Need of a similar application to the questions of race and of nationality -- 5. Consequences for the social mission of the church.
505 0 $aX. The church as spiritual society and as ecclesiastical institution -- 1. Possible attitudes toward the divisions of Christendom -- the movement for church unity and the questions of principle it raises -- 2. Different views of the significance of the church as an institution -- 3. Different views of the limits of legitimate variation within the church -- 4. Differences as to the future organization of the church derived from a study of present tendencies -- 5. Principles which condition future progress -- Part IV. Organizing for work -- XI. The church in the community -- 1. The fundamental importance of the local church for the forward movement in Christianity -- 2. The expanding work of the local church -- the country church as community centre -- the institutional church -- the mother church with affiliate churches -- 3. The movement for the community church -- its present status and possible lines of future development -- the three forms of the community church -- 4. The federation of churches -- its history and present status -- larger aspects of the federation movement -- 5. Consequences for the work of the minister -- need of a reconsideration of the function and responsibilities of the protestant ministry -- XII. The church specializing for service -- 1. The need of specialization in Christian work -- the survey as a condition of effective specialization -- 2. Resulting changes in organization -- the department as an agency of specialized service -- other forms of specialization at home and abroad -- the resulting need of unity -- 3. Agencies for interdenominational administrative unity -- The home missions council and the foreign missions conference -- corresponding agencies in the field of Christian associations -- problems confronting the associations today.
505 0 $aXIII. The churches getting together -- 1. Obstacles to Christian unity presented by the existing situation in the denominations -- 2. The movement for the reunion of denominational families -- its difficulties, practical and theoretical -- 3. Organic and federal unity -- reasons why we must begin with the latter -- the federal council, an agency of nation-wide Christian co-operation -- 4. The larger aspects of the unity movement -- the relation of the protestant churches to other bodies, religious and non-religious -- possible ways of securing international co-operation between the churches -- Part V. Training for tomorrow -- XIV. The church as a school of religion -- 1. The revival of interest in religious education -- its connection with the general educational movement -- aspects of the church's educational task -- 2. Winning recruits -- the teacher as evangelists -- the social gospel as material for a new educational evangelism -- 3. The church's responsibility for educating its own members -- special importance of this in Protestantism -- what Christians need to know about Christianity -- 4. The church's responsibility for forming public opinion in matters bearing upon the Christian ideal -- XV. Fining and training leaders -- 1. The problem of educational leadership in Protestantism -- fields in which religious leadership is needed -- the church's responsibility for finding and training constructive thinkers in the field of religion -- 2. Agencies available for the higher religious education of laymen -- the responsibility of our colleges and universities for the teaching of religion -- 3. Recent developments in ministerial education -- training for other forms of specialized service -- the church's responsibility for training its workers in the field -- XVI. Thinking together -- 1. The Christian way of dealing with difference -- the churchas a training school in cooperative thinking -- 2. What it means to think together -- fields in which cooperative thinking is needed in the church -- 3. Wanted: an organ for collective thinking for the churc has a whole.
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