Bibliography
Required Reading
Video: Congregationalism 101 online: http://www.naccc.org/publications.html
- Bremer, Francis J. Puritanism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford Press, 2009
- Peay, Steven A. editor. A Past With a Future: Continuing Congregationalism Into the Next Millennium. Oak Creek: Congregational Press, 1998. (145 pages)
- Peay, Steven A. editor. Yet More Light and Truth: Congregationalism, Covenant and Community. Oak Creek: Congregational Press, 2003. (171 pages)
- Ryken, Leland. Worldly Saints: The Puritans as They Really Were. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing, 1986. (221 pages)
- Von Rohr, John. The Shaping of American Congregationalism: 1620-1957. Cleveland, OH: The Pilgrim Press, 1992. (451 pages)
DOCUMENTS (review)
-- Peay, Steven A., and Lloyd M. Hall, Jr. editors. Congregationalism: The Church Local and Universal – the 1954 Polity and Unity Report. Oak Creek, WI: Congregational Press, 2001. (99 pages) This is available from the NACCC office by calling 800-262-1620.
-- Williston Walker. The Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism. Cleveland: United Church Press, 1991 (615 pages) You may download this digitally from Hathi Trust Library at
http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008626926
CFTS Students - Deadline
The online course, (Levels I and II), as well as all required readings must be complete no later than June 30th of the year you begin your Directed Study. This serves as the prerequisite to attendance at the Boston Seminar. Extensions may be granted at the discretion of the Dean. Note: Use the readings in your directed study to help you identify a research area of interest. By the close of the Boston Seminar an outline of your research topic should be ready for approval of the Dean.
ARTICLES (required reading)
"Fellowship: The Neglected Focus of the Congregational Ellipse" - Steven Peay
"Freedom: The Ill-Defined Expression of Congregationalism" - Rick Hartley
"Ordained" - Lloyd Hall
"From Call to Settlement" - Lloyd Hall
"Breaking Covenant" - Casey vanderBent
"We Covenant with the Lord and with One Another" - Steven Peay
"Rediscovering Intentional Use of the Church Covenant" - Rick Hartley
"Women's Ministries Within Congregational Christian History" - Barbara Brown Zikmund
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" - Jonathan Edwards. 1741
"The Moral Argument Against Calvinism" - William Ellery Channing. 1820
"The New Puritanism" - Lyman Abbott. 1897
"Social Gospel Praxis: Women and Reform from the Antebellum Period to Mid-1900's." - Lisa Bolton-Hunt. 2009
"The League to Uphold Congregational Principles" - Debbie Rhinesmith. 2009
"Pilgrim Others" Reclaiming the Agency and Identity of Women, Negroes and Indians in Puritan Massachusetts" - Julie Johnson Staples. 2012
"Women of the NACCC" - Karen Robu. 2013
"The Art and Practice of the Congregational Way" - D. Elizabeth Mauro, 2014
"The NACCC Member Church Handbook" - 2018
"Misconduct in Ministry: A Handbook for Congregational Churches" - 2014