New Wine in Old Wineskins
Evangelicals and Liberals in a Small-Town Church
New Wine in Old Wineskins
Evangelicals and Liberals in a Small-Town Church
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Paperback / softback
£30.00
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 9780520072046
Number of Pages: 367
Published: 10/09/1990
Exploring the roots of resurgent evangelicalism in the United States, Stephen Warner tells the story of one small-town church from 1959 to 1982, the Presbyterian Church of Mendocino, California. This book chronicles the actions of the men and women who struggled with and against one another to shape their church.
Preface
Prologue: Bicentennial Sunday in Mendocino
Main Street
E Pluribus Unum
In God We Trust
1. A Quarter Century Distilled
The Complacent Fifties
The Sixties: Numerical Decline and Organized Activism
Conservative and Mainline Paths Diverge
The Seventies: Mainline Decline and Conservative Growth
Religious Institutions and Religious Movements
Plan of the Book
2. The Action in American Protestantism
Evangelicalism Nascent in Mendocino, 1976
Nascent and Institutional Religion
Theological Warfare: Evangelicals Versus Liberals
Interactions and Ironies
3. Sojourn in the Field
Preconceived Ideas
Getting Started
Self as Instrument
The Emerging Picture
Exit
4. Reorientation: Mendocino Presbyterian 1959-1970
The Congregation in the 1950s
Advent of the Sixties
Liberalism Nascent
The Gathering Storm
5. From Mission to Parachurch: Antioch Fellowship, 1969-1973
Mission to the Counterculture
Evangelicals in the Nascent State
Antioch Ranch as a Patriarchal Household
Two Patterns of Recruitment
Converting the Neighborhood
Fellowship of Independent Households
The Fellowship and the Church
6. A Hippie Commune Comes to Jesus: The Holy Land, 1969-1974
Two Communards and their Patroness
The Commune, 1970
Mass Conversion, 1971-1972
Spiritual Bootcamp, 1972-1974
The Land and the Evangelical Community
7. Evangelical Victory in the Church
Liberal Exhaustion, Institutional Persistence
Evangelical Mobilization
Evangelicalism in the Institutional State
8. Church Growth and Decline in Context
Membership in Presbyterian Churches
Explaining Church Growth and Decline
Population Change as a Local Contextual Factor
9. Beachhead for Christ: Mendocino Presbyterian, 1973-1976
Worldly Evangelicalism
Elective Parochialism
Harvest of Souls
10. Movement and Institution
Ecclesiola in Ecclesia
Wayward Sheep
Whom to Serve
11. Separate Ways
"We Are a Church"
Humiliation
12. The Shape of the Vessel
The Cursillistas
New Wine
Step of Faith: The Youth Ministry
Impact Outside the Church
Conclusion: Of Wine and Wineskins
Two Dimensions, Four Types, Twenty Years
The Evangelical Ethic and the Spirit of Parochialism
Political Implications
Epilogue: 1986
Notes
Glossary
References
Acknowledgments
Index
Prologue: Bicentennial Sunday in Mendocino
Main Street
E Pluribus Unum
In God We Trust
1. A Quarter Century Distilled
The Complacent Fifties
The Sixties: Numerical Decline and Organized Activism
Conservative and Mainline Paths Diverge
The Seventies: Mainline Decline and Conservative Growth
Religious Institutions and Religious Movements
Plan of the Book
2. The Action in American Protestantism
Evangelicalism Nascent in Mendocino, 1976
Nascent and Institutional Religion
Theological Warfare: Evangelicals Versus Liberals
Interactions and Ironies
3. Sojourn in the Field
Preconceived Ideas
Getting Started
Self as Instrument
The Emerging Picture
Exit
4. Reorientation: Mendocino Presbyterian 1959-1970
The Congregation in the 1950s
Advent of the Sixties
Liberalism Nascent
The Gathering Storm
5. From Mission to Parachurch: Antioch Fellowship, 1969-1973
Mission to the Counterculture
Evangelicals in the Nascent State
Antioch Ranch as a Patriarchal Household
Two Patterns of Recruitment
Converting the Neighborhood
Fellowship of Independent Households
The Fellowship and the Church
6. A Hippie Commune Comes to Jesus: The Holy Land, 1969-1974
Two Communards and their Patroness
The Commune, 1970
Mass Conversion, 1971-1972
Spiritual Bootcamp, 1972-1974
The Land and the Evangelical Community
7. Evangelical Victory in the Church
Liberal Exhaustion, Institutional Persistence
Evangelical Mobilization
Evangelicalism in the Institutional State
8. Church Growth and Decline in Context
Membership in Presbyterian Churches
Explaining Church Growth and Decline
Population Change as a Local Contextual Factor
9. Beachhead for Christ: Mendocino Presbyterian, 1973-1976
Worldly Evangelicalism
Elective Parochialism
Harvest of Souls
10. Movement and Institution
Ecclesiola in Ecclesia
Wayward Sheep
Whom to Serve
11. Separate Ways
"We Are a Church"
Humiliation
12. The Shape of the Vessel
The Cursillistas
New Wine
Step of Faith: The Youth Ministry
Impact Outside the Church
Conclusion: Of Wine and Wineskins
Two Dimensions, Four Types, Twenty Years
The Evangelical Ethic and the Spirit of Parochialism
Political Implications
Epilogue: 1986
Notes
Glossary
References
Acknowledgments
Index
