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Capital witness : a history of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington DC / edited by Dewey D. Wallace Jr., Wilson Golden, and Edith Holmes Snyder.

Contributor(s): Wallace, Dewey D | Golden, Wilson | Snyder, Edith Holmes
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Franklin, Tenn. : Plumbline Media, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: xi, 436 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 29 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781937824006 (hardcover); 1937824004 (hardcover)Subject(s): New York Avenue Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.) -- History | Presbyterian Church -- Washington (D.C.) -- History | Washington (D.C.) -- Church historyDDC classification: 285/.1753 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-424) and index.
Contents:
The New York Avenue Presbyterian Church : reflecting the stories of the nation and of Christianity in America / Dewey D. Wallace Jr. -- Founding a church in a city on a hill : Joseph Nourse, James Laurie, and the F Street Church / Elaine Morrison Foster -- "A censorious ancestor" : Calvinistic evangelicalism, malicious whispers, and Second Presbyterian Church / Robert Milton Winter -- Preserving a dream : from Laurie to Gurley / Elaine Morrison Foster -- Abraham Lincoln's minister : Phineas Densmore Gurley / Ronald C. White, Jr. -- Stories of a president and his pastor / Frank van der Linden -- A growing church in the Gilded Age : a golden era for preaching and outreach / William E. Thompson -- The Wallace Radcliffe and Joseph R. Sizoo years, 1895-1936 / Thomas Faith -- "This prince of God" : the ministry of Peter Marshall / William A. Moyer -- Christian education at NYAPC in the mid-twentieth century : a reflective memoir / Mary Mace Spatz -- "Too little and too late, but we have come" : civil rights and Vietnam in the ministry of George Docherty / Elaine Morrison Foster -- For the living of the Christian life : Jack McClendon and social ministry / Paul B. Dornan -- NYAPC's social missions, 1962-2010 / Paul B. Dornan -- A challenged and changing congregation : ministry in the city since 1976 / Dewey D. Wallace Jr. -- "Upon a great common" : the architectural legacy of NYAPC / John Sawyko and Wilson Golden -- Music at NYAPC : in the service of the Lord / Cecelia H. Porter and Douglas R. Porter -- Epilogue: Reformed and always reforming / Roger J. Gench.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-424) and index.

Timeline (NYAPC history, Reformed tradition in America, Religion in America, US history) on endpapers.

The New York Avenue Presbyterian Church : reflecting the stories of the nation and of Christianity in America / Dewey D. Wallace Jr. -- Founding a church in a city on a hill : Joseph Nourse, James Laurie, and the F Street Church / Elaine Morrison Foster -- "A censorious ancestor" : Calvinistic evangelicalism, malicious whispers, and Second Presbyterian Church / Robert Milton Winter -- Preserving a dream : from Laurie to Gurley / Elaine Morrison Foster -- Abraham Lincoln's minister : Phineas Densmore Gurley / Ronald C. White, Jr. -- Stories of a president and his pastor / Frank van der Linden -- A growing church in the Gilded Age : a golden era for preaching and outreach / William E. Thompson -- The Wallace Radcliffe and Joseph R. Sizoo years, 1895-1936 / Thomas Faith -- "This prince of God" : the ministry of Peter Marshall / William A. Moyer -- Christian education at NYAPC in the mid-twentieth century : a reflective memoir / Mary Mace Spatz -- "Too little and too late, but we have come" : civil rights and Vietnam in the ministry of George Docherty / Elaine Morrison Foster -- For the living of the Christian life : Jack McClendon and social ministry / Paul B. Dornan -- NYAPC's social missions, 1962-2010 / Paul B. Dornan -- A challenged and changing congregation : ministry in the city since 1976 / Dewey D. Wallace Jr. -- "Upon a great common" : the architectural legacy of NYAPC / John Sawyko and Wilson Golden -- Music at NYAPC : in the service of the Lord / Cecelia H. Porter and Douglas R. Porter -- Epilogue: Reformed and always reforming / Roger J. Gench.

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