A Selected Bibliography: History of American Congregationalism
Table of ContentsReference and General Works
Congregational Classics
Topical Studies
Race and Ethnicity
Gender
Congregational Studies
Chronological Topics
Puritans and Separatists
Jonathan Edwards
Early Republic
Horace Bushnell
Western Expansion
The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
The American Missionary Association
Post-Civil War Denominational Growth and the Rise of Liberal
Theology
Social Gospel
Twentieth Century
Reference and General Works
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Morey, Verne Dale."American Congregationalism: A Critical Bibliography." Church History 21 (1952): 323-344.
Nordbeck, Elizabeth C."Embracing Diversity: An Essay on Congregational Denominationalism." Bulletin of the Congregational Library 33 (Fall 1981): 4-14.
Shelley, Bruce L."Congregationalism and American Culture." Fides et Historia 21 (June 1989): 38-50.
Taylor, Richard,"The Churches of Christ of the Congregational Way in New England." Benton Harbor, MI, 1989.
________."The Congregational Churches of the West." Benton Harbor, MI, 1992.
________."Southern Congregational Churches." Benton Harbor, MI, 1994.
Worthley, Harold F."The Congregational Way: Some Historical and Bibliographical Remarks." American Theological Library Association Summary of Proceedings 29 (1975): 129-150.
________. An Inventory of the Records of the Particular (Congregational) Churches of Massachusetts Gathered 1620-1805. Harvard University Press, 1970.
Von Rohr, John. The Shaping of American Congregationalism, 1620-1957. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 1992.
Youngs, J. William T. The Congregationalists. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1990.
Congregational Classics
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Atkins, Gaius Glenn and Frederick L. Fagley. History of American Congregationalism. Chicago: Pilgrim Press, 1942.
Barton, William E. Congregational Creeds and Covenants. Chicago: Advance Publishing Co., 1917.
________. The Law of Congregational Usage. Chicago: Avance Publishing Co., 1916.
Dexter, Henry Martyn. The Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundred Years, As Seen in Its Literature. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1880.
________. Congregationalism: What It Is; Whence It Is; How It Works; Why It Is Better Than Any Other Form of Church Government. Boston: Nichols and Noyes, 1868.
Dunning, A. E. Congregationalists in America: A Popular History of their Origin, Belief, Polity, Growth, and Work. New York: J. A. Hill, 1894.
Fagley, Frederick L. The Congregational Churches: An Outline of the History, Beliefs, and the Organization of Congregational Churches in the United States. New York: Commission on Evangelism and Church Life, 1925.
Sweet, William Warren. The Congregationalists: A Collection of Source Materials. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1939.
Walker, Williston, The Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism [1893] reprint ed., New York: Pilgrim Press, 1991.
________. A History of the Congregational Churches in the United States. New York: Christian Literature Company, 1897.
Willey, Samuel Hopkins. American Congregationalism in the Nineteenth Century and Entering the Twentieth. San Francisco: George Spaulding, 1902?
Topical Studies
Race and Ethnicity
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Aika, Clifford and Miya Okawara,"Sho-Chiku-Bai: Japanese American Congregationalists," in Hidden Histories in the United Church of Christ. Barbara Brown Zikmund, ed. New York: United Church Press, 1994.
Chrystal, William G."German Congregationalism," in Hidden Histories in the United Church of Christ. Barbara Brown Zikmund, ed. New York: United Church Press, 1994.
Eisenach, George. A History of the German Congregational Churches in the United States. Yankton, SD: Pioneer Press, 1938.
Stanley, J. Taylor. A History of Black Congregational Christian Churches of the South. New York: United Church Press, 1978.
Stanley, A. Knighton. The Children Is Crying: Congregationalism Among
Black People. New York: Pilgrim Press, 1979.
Tootikian, Vahan H."Armenian Congregationalism: From Mission to
Membership," in Hidden Histories in the United Church of Christ
Zikmund, Barbara (with Dorothy Wong, Rose Lee, and Matthew Fong)."Chinese Congregationalism," in Hidden Histories in the United Church of Christ, vol. 2 Barbara Brown Zikmund, ed. New York: United Church Press, 1987.
Gender
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Bass, Dorothy C."The Congregational Training School for Women" in Hidden Histories in the United Church of Christ, vol. 2 Barbara Brown Zikmund, ed. New York: United Church Press, 1987.
Cazden, Elizabeth. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, A Biography. Old Westbury, NY: The Feminist Press, 1983.
Rogers, Wilson and Charlotte Rogers."Eliza Ann Ward: Teacher and Missionary to the Freedmen." Bulletin of the Congregational Library 31 (Fall 1979): 4-11.
Shiels, Richard."The Feminization of American Congregationalism, 1730-1835." American Quarterly 33 (1981): 46-62.
Stuckey-Kauffman, Priscilla."Women's Mission Structures and the American Board" in Hidden Histories in the United Church of Christ, vol. 2 Barbara Brown Zikmund, ed. New York: United Church Press, 1987.
Walker, Randi. Emma Newman: A Frontier Woman Minister. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000.
Zink-Sawyer, Beverly Ann. From Preachers to Suffragists: Women's Rights and Religious Conviction in the Lives of Three Nineteenth Century Clergywomen. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 2003.
Congregational Studies
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Rossi, Maryann."The Congregational Church Membership of Westport, Connecticut: 1835-1880 vs. The Land Structure in a Nineteenth Century New England Town." Ph.D. Diss: St. Louis University, 1983.
Stout, Harry S. and Catherine Brekus,"A New England Congregation: Center Church, New Haven, 1638-1989," in American Congregations, Volume 1: Portraits of Twelve Religious Communities. Ed James P. Wind and James W. Lewis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Chronological Topics
Puritans and Separatists
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Cogley, Richard W. John Eliot's Mission to the Indians Before King Philip's War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Demos, John. A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.
Foster, Stephen. The Long Argument: English Puritanism and the Shaping of New England Culture, 1570-1700. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
Hall, David D. Puritans in the New World: A Critical Anthology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.
Hambrick-Stowe, Charles. The Practice of Piety: Puritan Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century New England. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.
Knight, Janice. Orthodoxies in Massachusetts: Rereading American Puritanism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994.
Miller, Perry. The New England Mind: From Colony to Province. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1953.
Morgan, Edmund S. Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1963.
Reis, Elizabeth. Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.
Zakai, Avi. Exile and Kingdom: History and Apocalypse in the Puritan Migration to America. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Jonathan Edwards
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Hart, D.G., Sean Michael Lucas and Stephen J. Nichols, eds. The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards: American Religion and the Evangelical Tradition. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2003.
Kling, David and Douglas Sweeney, eds. Jonathan Edwards at Home and Abroad: Historical Memories, Cultural Movements, Global Horizons. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2002.
Lee, Sang Hyun and Allen C. Guelzo, eds. Edwards in Our Time: Jonathan Edwards and the Changing Shape of American Religion. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1999.
Lesser, M. X. Jonathan Edwards: An Annotated Bibliography, 1979-1993. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.
Marsden, George. Jonathan Edwards: A Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
Stein, Stephen J., ed. Jonathan Edwards' Writings: Text, Context, Interpretation. Bloomington, IN: University of Indiana Press, 1996.
The Early Republic
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Conforti, Joseph. Samuel Hopkins and the New Divinity Movement: Calvinism, the Congregational Ministry, and Reform in New England Between the Great Awakenings. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1981.
Field, Peter S. The Crisis of the Standing Order: Clerical Intellectuals and Cultural Authority in Massachusetts. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.
Fitzmier, John. New England's Moral Legislator: Timothy Dwight, 1752-1817. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.
Kling, David, A Field of Divine Wonders: The New Divinity and Village Revivals in Northwestern Connecticut, 1792-1822. University Park, Penn State University Press, 1993.
Kuehne, Dale S. Massachusetts Congregationalist Political Thought, 1760-1790: The Design of Heaven Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996.
Kuklick, Bruce, ed. The Unitarian Controversy, 1819-1823. New York: Garland, 1987.
Lawson, Russell M. The American Plutarch: Jeremy Belknap and the Historian's Dialogue With the Past. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998.
Mead, Sidney. Nathaniel William Taylor, 1786-1858: Connecticut Liberal. [1942] Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1967.
Moss, Richard. The Life of Jedediah Morse: A Station of Peculiar Exposure. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 1995.
Phillips, Joseph. Jedediah Morse and New England Congregationalism. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers, 1983.
Sassi, Jonathan D. A Republic of Righteousness: The Public Christianity of Post-Revolutionary New England Clergy. New York: Oxford, 2001.
Sweeney, Douglas. Nathaniel Taylor: New Haven Theology and the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards. New York: Oxford, 2003.
Horace Bushnell
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Barnes, Howard A. Horace Bushnell and the Virtuous Republic. Metuchen, NJ: ATLA and Scarecrow Press, 1991.
Edwards, Robert L. Of Singular Genius, Of Singular Grace: A Biography of Horace Bushnell. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 1992.
Mullin, Robert Bruce. The Puritan as Yankee: A Life of Horace Bushnell. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002.
Antebellum Revivalism and Reform
Conkin, Paul K. The Uneasy Center: Reformed Christianity in Antebellum America. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
Davis, Hugh. Leonard Bacon: New England Reformer and Antislavery Moderate. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1998.
Fraser, James W. Pedagogue for God's Kingdom: Lyman Beecher and the Second Great Awakening. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1985.
Hambrick-Stowe, Charles. Charles G. Finney and the Spirit of American Evangelicalism. Eerdmans, 1996.
Hedrick, Joan."`Peaceable Fruits': The Ministry of Harriet Beecher Stowe." American Quarterly 40 (Spring 1988): 307-332.
Moore, William F. and Jane Ann Moore. Owen Lovejoy: His Brother's Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838-64. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2004.
Newman, Richard, ed."`The Presence of the Lord': An Unpublished Sermon by Lemuel Haynes." Bulletin of the Congregational Library 32 (Fall 1980): 4-13.
Smith, James D. III"The Beginnings of the Bible Society of Massachusetts." Bulletin of the Congregational Library 35 (Spring/Summer 1984): 4-14.
Swift, David E. Black Prophets of Justice: Activist Clergy Before the Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
Western Expansion
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Hodgson, Traci A."Egalitarian Transformations: Gender, Religious Culture and Family Government on the Western Reserve of Ohio, 1800-1830." Ph.D. Diss: Boston University, 1997.
Kennedy, Charles J."Congregational Churches on the Midwest Frontier, 1830-1860." Bulletin of the Congregational Library 18 (May 1967): 5-9.
Wallace, Dewey D., Jr."Charles Oliver Brown at Dubuque: A Study in the Ideals of Midwestern Congregationalists in the Late Nineteenth Century." Church History 53 (1984): 46-60.
Ratliff, Ruth Evelyn."The Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education at the West: A Congregational Education Society." Ph.D. Diss: University of Iowa, 1988.
Rohrer, James. Keepers of the Covenant: Frontier Missions and the Decline of Congregationalism, 1774-1818. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
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Heim, Melissa Lewis."Making a Life in India : American Missionary Households in Nineteenth-Century Madurai." Ph.D. Diss: Boston College, 1994.
Goodsell, Frank. You Shall Be My Witnesses. Boston: ABCFM, 1959.
Nestorova, Tatyana. American Missionaries Among the Bulgarians, 1858-1912. Boulder: East European Monographs; New York: Distributed by Columbia University Press, 1987.
Schneider, Robert."The Senior Secretary: Rufus Anderson and the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1810-1880." Ph.D. Diss: Harvard University, 1980.
Strong, William E. The Story of the American Board: An Account of the First Hundred Years of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Boston: Pilgrim Press, 1910.
The American Missionary Association
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Beard, Augustus Field. A Crusade of Brotherhood: A History of the American Missionary Association. Boston: Pilgrim Press, 1909.
DeBoer, Clara, Be Jubilant My Feet: African American Abolitionists in the American Missionary Association, 1839-1861. New York: Garland, 1994.
________. His Truth is Marching On: African Americans Who Taught the Freedmen for the American Missionary Association, 1861-1877. New York: Garland, 1995.
Johnson, Clifton H. The American Missionary Association, 1846-1861: A Study of Christian Abolitionism. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1971. [Ph.D. Diss: University of North Carolina, 1958]
McMillan, Joseph T. From Hope to Hope: The First Fifty Years of the American Missionary Association, A Metaphor for Race Relations in Twenty-First-Century America. UCC Historical Council, 1996.
Moore, David O."The Failure of the American Missionary Association to Expand Congregationalism Among Southern Blacks" in Church and Community Among Black Southerners, 1865-1900. Donald G. Nieman, ed. New York: Garland, 1994.
Richardson, Joe Martin. Christian Reconstruction: The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, 1861-1890. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1986.
Post-Civil War Denominational Growth and the Rise of Liberal Theology
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Arnold, Duane W. H."The Congregationalist and the Cardinal: Gaius Glen Atkins and the `Silver-Grey Enigma' of John Henry Newman." Bulletin of the Congregational Library 39 (Fall 1987-Winter 1988): 4-11.
Darling, Dee Richard."Cultures in Conflict: Congregationalism, Mormonism and Schooling in Utah." Ph.D. Diss: University of Utah, 1991.
Fry, C. George. Congregationalists and Evolution: Asa Gray and Louis Agassiz. University Press of America, 1989.
Fox, Richard Wrightman. Trials of Intimacy: Love and Loss in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Fox, William. Willard Sperry: The Quandaries of a Liberal Protestant Mind, 1914-1939. New York: P. Lang, 1991.
Harrington, Gordon K ."The Lonely Pilgrim in Zion: Congregationalism in Utah, 1865-1895." Bulletin of the Congregational Library 30 (Winter 1979): 4-13.
Hutchison, William R. The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976.
Johnson, Mark."The Dissolution of Dissent: A Social and Institutional History of Congregational Theological Accommodation, 1850-1918." Ph.D. Diss: University of Toronto, 1982.
Kuklick, Bruce.Churchmen and Philosophers: From Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
Leiper, Henry Smith. S. Parks Cadman: Great Churchman and Christian. Boston: Congregational Christian Historical Society, 1967.
Pearson, Samuel C., Jr."From Church to Denomination: American Congregationalism in the Nineteenth Century." Church History 38 (1969): 67-87.
Pointer, Steven R. Joseph Cook, Boston Lecturer and Evangelical Apologist: A Bridge Between Popular Culture and Academia in Late Nineteenth-Century America. Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press, 1991.
Taylor, Sharon."That Obnoxious Dogma: Future Probation and the Struggle to Construct an American Congregationalist Identity." Ph.D. diss: Boston College, August 2004.
Social Gospel
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Hambrick-Stowe, Charles."Preaching the Social Gospel: Washington Gladden's Sermons on the Lord's Prayer." Bulletin of the Congregational Library 29 (Fall 1977): 4-9.
Miller, Timothy. Following in His Steps: A Biography of Charles M. Sheldon. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987.
Prescott, Stephen R."The Social Gospel at the Crossroads of Middle America: Washington Solomon Gladden and the First Congregational Church, Columbus, Ohio, 1882-1918" in Perspectives on the Social Gospel : Papers from the Inaugural Social Gospel Conference at Colgate Rochester Divinity School. Ed. Christopher Evans. Lewiston, N.Y: Edwin Mellen Press, 1999.
White, Ronald C. Jr., and C. Howard Hopkins, The Social Gospel: Religion and Reform in Changing America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1976.
Yrigoyen, Charles, Jr."Charles M. Sheldon: Christian Social Novelist." Bulletin of the Congregational Library 33 (Winter 1982): 4-16.
Twentieth Century
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Gunnemann, Louis H. The Shaping of the United Church of Christ: An Essay in the History of American Christianity. New York: United Church Press, 1977.
Guptill, Nathanael."Councils and Synods: With Special Reference to Kansas City, 1913." Bulletin of the Congregational Library 40 (Fall 1988): 4-12.
Harvey,"Individualism and Ecumenical Thought: The Merger Controversy in Congregationalism." Ph.D. Diss: University of California Riverside, 1968.
Hutchison, William R., ed. Between the Times: The Travail of the Protestant Establishment in America, 1900-1960 Cambridge, Engl.: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Trost, Theodore. Douglas Horton and the Ecumenical Impulse in American Religion. Harvard Theological Studies 50. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.