New Wine in Old Wineskins

R. Stephen Warner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

• Preface Prologue: Bicentennial Sunday in Mendocino Main Street E Pluribus Unum In God We Trust 1. A Quarter Century Distilled The Complacent Fifties The Sixties: Numerical Decline and Organized Activism Conservative and Mainline Paths Diverge The Seventies: Mainline Decline and Conservative Growth Religious Institutions and Religious Movements Plan of the Book 2. The Action in American Protestantism Evangelicalism Nascent in Mendocino, 1976 Nascent and Institutional Religion Theological Warfare: Evangelicals Versus Liberals Interactions and Ironies 3. Sojourn in the Field Preconceived Ideas Getting Started Self as Instrument The Emerging Picture Exit 4. Reorientation: Mendocino Presbyterian 1959-1970 The Congregation in the 1950s Advent of the Sixties Liberalism Nascent The Gathering Storm 5. From Mission to Parachurch: Antioch Fellowship, 1969-1973 Mission to the Counterculture Evangelicals in the Nascent State Antioch Ranch as a Patriarchal Household Two Patterns of RecruitmentConverting the Neighborhood Fellowship of Independent Households The Fellowship and the Church 6. A Hippie Commune Comes to Jesus: The Holy Land, 1969-1974 Two Communards and their Patroness The Commune, 1970 Mass Conversion, 1971-1972 Spiritual Bootcamp, 1972-1974 The Land and the Evangelical Community 7. Evangelical Victory in the Church Liberal Exhaustion, Institutional Persistence Evangelical Mobilization Evangelicalism in the Institutional State 8. Church Growth and Decline in Context Membership in Presbyterian Churches Explaining Church Growth and Decline Population Change as a Local Contextual Factor 9. Beachhead for Christ: Mendocino Presbyterian, 1973-1976 Worldly Evangelicalism Elective Parochialism Harvest of Souls 10. Movement and Institution Ecclesiola in Ecclesia Wayward Sheep Whom to Serve 11. Separate Ways "We Are a Church" Humiliation 12. The Shape of the Vessel The Cursillistas New Wine Step of Faith: The Youth Ministry Impact Outside the Church Conclusion: Of Wine and Wineskins Two Dimensions, Four Types, Twenty Years The Evangelical Ethic and the Spirit of Parochialism Political Implications Epilogue: 1986 Notes Glossary References Acknowledgments Index