The last Puritans : mainline Protestants and the power of the past /
Bendroth, Margaret Lamberts,1954-author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Protestant saints: the power of congregational memory -- Sons of the pilgrim fathers: how Congregationalists claimed their history -- The Boston Council of 1865 -- The Pilgrim Jubilee and what came of it -- Scribes and scholars: the careers of Henry Martyn Dexter and Williston Walker -- Coming to terms with the pilgrim fathers -- The end of one epoch and the beginning of another -- History and the politics of merger -- History and mainline Protestants: the United Church of Christ comes of age.
Congregational churches
Protestantism