The Diversity of Discipleship

by Coalter, Milton J.; Mulder, John M.; Weeks, Louis B.

• ISBN13: 9780664251963
• ISBN10: 066425196X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-10-01
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr

Summary

This volume considers three issues in the Presbyterian Church that have proved to be perplexing to the witness of faith: outreach, ecumenism, and pluralism. The first four essays illustrate that troubling questions about the church's witness arose in this century and divided Presbyterian opinion in the midst of American social problems. Thus, verbal and physical outreach became competing priorities. The final five essays examine racial/ethnic Presbyterian experiences. Examples of the interlocking and sometimes interfering interplay of outreach, ecumenism, and pluralism in the quest for distinctive Presbyterian discipleship are discussed.Through its examination of American Presbyterianism, thePresbyterian Presenceseries illuminates patterns of change in mainstream Protestantism and American religious and cultural life in the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	7	(6)
Acknowledgments	13	(2)
Contributors	15	(4)
Introduction by the Editors	19	(14)
Presbyterian Evangelism: A Case of Parallel Allegiances Diverging	33	(22)
Milton J Coalter
Twentieth-Century Presbyterian New Church Development: A Critical Period, 1940-1980	55	(28)
Robert H. Bullock, Jr.
The Rise and Fall of Presbyterian Official Journals, 1925-1985	83	(22)
James A. Overbeck
A Poultice for the Bite of the Cobra: The Hocking Report and Presbyterian Missions in the Middle Decades of the Twentieth Century	105	(21)
John R. Fitzmier
Randall Balmer
American Presbyterians in the Global Ecumenical Movement	126	(23)
Theodore A. Gill, Jr.
Presbyterian Ecumenical Activity in the United States	149	(21)
Erskine Clarke
Presbyterians and Mass Media: A Case of Blurred Vision and Missed Mission	170	(17)
J. W. Gregg Meister
A Presbyterian Dilemma: Ecclesiastical and Social Racial Policy in the Twentieth-Century Presbyterian Communion	187	(22)
Joel L. Alvis, Jr.
Identity and Integration: Black Presbyterians and Their Allies in the Twentieth Century	209	(25)
Gayraud S. Wilmore
Native American Presbyterians: Assimilation, Leadership, and Future Challenges	234	(23)
Henry Warner Bowden
Hispanic Presbyterians: Life in Two Cultures Francisco O. Garcia-Treto and	257	(23)
R. Douglas Brackenridge
Contexts for a History of Asian American Presbyterian Churches: A Case Study of the Early History of Japanese American Presbyterians	280	(32)
Michael J. Kimura Angevine
Ryo Yoshida
Korean American Presbyterians: A Need for Ethnic Particularity and the Challenge of Christian Pilgrimage	312	(19)
Sang Hyun Lee
Notes	331	(72)
Index	403