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The lively experiment : The shaping of Christianity in America

Mead Sidney E.

The lively experiment : The shaping of Christianity in America - New York Harper & Row 1969 - 220p

Summary:
Publisher description: Historian Sidney Mead shows the development of the thought and institutional life which characterize Christianity in America. He explains this religious development in terms of the emergence of religious freedom and the physical fact of the "frontier." As he enlarges upon many aspects of his main theme, Dr. Mead traces the parallel growth and creative tension of Christianity and democracy.

9781556352768


1. Christianity - U S A 2. Church & State - Liberty3. Church History - Politics & Government - 1783-1865

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