Power, authority, and the origins of American denominational order
Subtitle: the English churches in the Delaware Valley, 1680-1730
By: Jon Butler.
Series: Religion and American culture
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa, Ala
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780817355258
Subjects: Protestant churches -- Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) -- History; Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) -- Church history; Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Notes: Originally published: Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, 1978.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Delaware Valley and American denominational order; title: Ministry, authority, and denominational order : the evolution of English models in reform and church government, 1580-1720; title: Broadening the Quaker hierarchy : the friends in the Delaware Valley; title: In the twilight of an egalitarian ministry : Baptists in the Delaware Valley; title: Toward tension and disorder : the ambivalent making of Presbyterian denominational order; title: Reform without church : the shape of Anglican failure; title: Conclusion: The origins and character of early American denominational order.