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Traditional ways of living the Christian faith—shaped and guided by confessional norms—exhibit remarkable staying power in American religious life. Holding On to the Faith addresses issues related to the persistence of confessional forms of Christianity in the face of utilitarian, democratic, evangelical American popular religious culture. Whereas historians in the twentieth century typically used terms like "countervailing", "alternative", or "immigrant faith" to describe confessional Christianity, it is now clear that groups which have maintained roots in doctrinal, liturgical, and institutional traditions are an integral part of American life. In Holding On to the Faith ten scholars of American religion contribute chapters analyzing the American experience of ecclesial groups ranging from Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism to the Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican/Episcopal, and even Mennonite traditions. Editors Douglas A. Sweeney and Charles Hambrick-Stowe discuss common themes and pose questions for further discussion.
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: Confessional Traditions in America Chapter 2 "Passing Through Many a Hard School and Test": Confessions, Piety, Liberty and the Lutheran Experiences in the United States Chapter 3 Contesting the Faith: The Internal Struggle of American Lutheranism Chapter 4 Presbyterian Confessional Identity and its Dilemmas Chapter 5 Eternally True, Variably Useful: How Confessions Worked in Some American Reformed Churches Chapter 6 After Establishment, What? The Paradox of the History of the Episcopal Church in America Chapter 7 Who's Got the Spirit in the Episcopal Church? A Case Study of the "Connecticut Six" Chapter 8 Mennonites and Democracy: Shaped by War and Rumors of War Chapter 9 Rome in America: Transnational Allegiances and Adjustments Chapter 10 Tammany Catholicism: The Semi-Established Church in the Immigrant City Chapter 11 The Eastern Orthodox Christian Church in North America: Continuity and Change in the Twenty-First Century Chapter 12 Conclusion: Holding Onto the Faith? The Complexity of American Confessionalism
