Rohrer challenges the traditional interpretation of the decline of the Congregationalists. Drawing heavily on unpublished manuscripts, the author shows that, rather than failing to adapt to the democratizing culture of the western migration, they were in fact aggressive frontier evangelists. In the course of proving this, Rohrer overturns many generalizations about the Congretationalists, and challenges conventional wisdom about church growth and religious declension.
Challenging the traditional interpretation of the decline of the Congregationalists in the USA, this study overturns many generalizations about these aggressive frontier evangelists and refutes conventional wisdom about church growth and religious declension.
