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History of American Christianity

Name: History of American Christianity
Author: Leonard Woolsey Bacon

Leonard Woolsey Bacon

Read by KHand · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Chapter I Providential Preparation for the Discovery of America (7:48)
Chapter II Spanish Christianity in America (15:05)
Chapter III French Christianity in America (23:50)
Chapter IV Antecedents of Permanent Christian Colonization (13:52)
Chapter V Puritan Beginnings of the Church in Virginia (25:03)
Chapter VI Maryland and the Carolinas (21:50)
Chapter VII Dutch Calvinists and Swedish Lutherans (21:29)
Chapter VIII The Church in New England, Part 1 (21:31)
Chapter VIII The Church in New England, Part 2 (20:24)
Chapter IX The Middle Colonies and Georgia (25:10)
Chapter X The Eve of the Great Awakening, Part 1 (23:42)
Chapter X The Eve of the Great Awakening, Part 2 (16:28)
Chapter XI The Great Awaking, Part 1 (19:57)
Chapter XI The Great Awaking, Part 2 (20:09)
Chapter XII Close of the Colonial Era, Part 1 (22:22)
Chapter XII Close of the Colonial Era, Part 2 (23:28)
Chapter XIII Reconstruction, Part 1 (19:01)
Chapter XIII Reconstruction, Part 2 (17:11)
Chapter XIV The Second Awakening (23:36)
Chapter XV Organized Beneficence (22:58)
Chapter XVI Conflicts of the Church With Public Wrongs, Part 1 (21:17)
Chapter XVI Conflicts of the Church With Public Wrongs, Part 2 (25:29)
Chapter XVII A Decade of Controversies and Schisms, Part 1 (19:33)
Chapter XVII A Decade of Controversies and Schisms, Part 2 (15:43)
Chapter XVIII The Great Immigration, Part 1 (20:37)
Chapter XVIII The Great Immigration, Part 2 (18:32)
Chapter XIX The Civil War (16:53)
Chapter XX After the War, Part 1 (16:41)
Chapter XX After the War, Part 2 (18:01)
Chapter XXI The Church in Theology and Literature, Part 1 (19:31)
Chapter XXI The Church in Theology and Literature, Part 2 (16:21)
Chapter XXII Tendencies Toward a Manifestation of the Unity of the American Church, Part 1 (18:03)
Chapter XXII Tendencies Toward a Manifestation of the Unity of the American Church, Part 2 (15:01)