Title: The Methodists /
Authors: Kirby, James E.; Richey, Russell E.; Rowe, Kenneth E.
Publisher: Greenwood Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: United Methodist Church (U.S.); Methodist Church (U.S.); Methodist Church United States.
Contents: pt. 1. Bishops. American episcopacy ; Constitutional Methodism ; Two patterns of episcopacy -- pt. 2. Conference. The Methodist conference ; General conference : a continental order ; Conference politicized ; Fratricide ; Formalization ; Pluralism -- pt. 3. Members. Making moral Christians and moral Methodists ; Class meeting and Sunday School, 1816-1866 ; Sunday School for all, 1866-1915 ; From class meeting to probationer's class, 1866-1915 ; The Sunday School renaissance, 1915-1935 ; Making Methodist disciples, 1939-1968 -- pt. 4. biographical dictionary of Methodist leaders. A chronology of American Methodism.