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The Methodist Conference in America
Russell E. Richey
其他書名
A History
出版Kingswood Books, 1996
主題Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & WelfareReligion / Christianity / HistoryReligion / Christianity / Methodist
ISBN06870218719780687021871
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=iIDZAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In the Methodist lexicon, 'conference' refers to a body of preachers (and later, of laity as well) that exercises legislative, judicial and (to some extent) executive functions for the church or some portion thereof. But 'conference, ' Richey argues here, defined the Methodist movement in more than political ways: On conference hinged religious time, religious space, religious belonging, religious structure, even religiosity itself. Methodist histories uniformly recognize, typically even feature, conference's centrality, but describe that in primarily constitutional and political terms. The purpose of this volume is to present conference as a distinctively American Methodist manner of being the church, a multifaceted mode of spirituality, unity, mission, governance, and fraternity that American Methodists have lived and operated better than they have interpreted.