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Publications

Theses

  • 1978.  The emergence of social gospel radicalism in American Methodism. PhD., Harvard University.

Articles

  • "The Establishment at Work," (article on Robert Moats Miller, Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam) in The Christian Century (15-22 May 1991):548-551. 
  • "'History as Revelation' in the Theology of the Social Gospel," Harvard Theological Review 76 (January 1983):109-29. 
  • "Hugh Price Hughes and the British 'Social Gospel,'" Journal of Religious History, 15 (June 1984):66-82. 

Edited Works

  • "Denominational Modernization and Religious Identity: The Case of the Methodist Episcopal Church," in

    Perspectives on American Methodism, Interpretive Essays, edited by Russell E. Richey, Kenneth E. Rowe, and

    Jean Miller Schmidt (Nashville: Kingswood Press, 1993):343-55.

  • "Ecumenism"; "Gladden, Solomon Washington;" "Interchurch World Movement;" and "Smith, William Robertson" accepted for publication in The Encyclopedia of Protestantism, edited by Hans Hillerbrand (New York: Routledge University Press, forthcoming).

  • "An Enthusiasm for Humanity:  the Social Emphasis in Religion and Its Accommodation in Protestant Theology," in Religion and Twentieth-Century American Intellectual Life, edited by Michael J. Lacey (Cambridge University Press, 1989):49-77. 
  • "Henry Churchill King” and “Lorenzo Dow McCabe” in Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, edited by John R. Shook (London/New York:  Thoemmes/Continuum, 2005).
  • "Liberalism," in The Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience, 3 vols., edited by Peter Williams and Charles Lippy (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988), II:1125-1145.  
  • "The Reform Establishment and the Ambiguities of Influence," in Between the Times:  The Travail of the Protestant Establishment in America, 1900-1960, edited by William R. Hutchison (Cambridge University Press, 1989):122-40.  
  • Religious Documents North America Annual, I: Spiritual Crosscurrents, 1989, edited by William M. King (Gulf

    Breeze, Fl.: Academic International Press, 1993) 488 pp.

  • "The Role of Auxiliary Ministries in Late Nineteenth-Century Methodism," in Rethinking Methodist History, edited by Russell Richey and Kenneth Rowe (United Methodist Publishing House, 1985):167-72.  
  • “Walter Rauschenbusch, “ in the Concise Encyclopedia of Preaching, edited by William H. Willimon and Richard Lischer (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1995), pp. 400-401.