God's ambassadors
Subtitle: a history of the Christian clergy in America
By: E. Brooks Holifield.
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780802803818
Subjects: Clergy -- United States -- History
Table of contents: title: The heritage; title: A bounded authority, 1493-1699; title: Association, revival, and revolution, 1700-1791; title: Professionals, populists, and immigrants, 1791-1861; title: Protestant alternatives, 1861-1929; title: Catholic order, 1861-1929; title: The Protestant ministry examined, 1930-1940; title: Ministry from revival to crisis, 1940-1970; title: Priesthood : from certainty to complexity, 1930-1970; title: A divided vocation, 1970-2005.