Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Growth or Declension: Methodist Historians’ Treatment of the Relationship Between the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Culture of the United States

Besides including us in the second footnote, Mark Teasdale's article is a helpful bibliographic essay at the intersection of Methodist history, culture, and evangelism. Teasdale reviews several post-Civil War histories of Methodism with an eye towards understanding how these influenced perceptions of church growth or declension.