A History of American Christianity: Leonard Woolsey Bacon / FLT CLASSICS

by Leonard Woolsey Bacon, FLT (Compiler)

Overview

"A History of American Christianity" is a popular book by Leonard Woolsey Bacon of "The American Church History Series".

Christian Church and the word church are used to denote both a Christian association of people and a place of worship. The word church is usually, but not exclusively, associated with Christianity. The term means something quite different for each religious institution that sees itself as belonging to the Christian traditions.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013817586
Publisher:	FLT
Publication date:	05/16/2016
Series:	The American Church History Series: FLT , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	853 KB

About the Author

Leonard Woolsey Bacon was an American clergyman, born in New Haven, Connecticut. He was a social commentator and a prolific author on religious, social, and historical matters. In social, political, and religious issues of his times, he often broke with the traditions of his countrymen, sometimes causing "great sensation".

Leonard Woolsey Bacon was a son of the Congregationalist preacher Leonard Bacon, and a brother of George B. Bacon of Orange, New Jersey, Thomas Rutherford Bacon of New Haven, Connecticut, and Edward Woolsey Bacon, all Congregational preachers. He graduated from Yale University in 1850, and in 1856 was ordained in Litchfield. He was also pastor of the First Church in Stamford, Connecticut (1862-65), and of the New England Congregational Church in Brooklyn, New York (1865-70).

Subsequently he passed several years in Europe, chiefly in Geneva, as student, preacher, and writer; in Geneva he spent part of his time preaching to "American sojourning there." From 1878 to 1882 he was pastor of the Park Congregational Church in Norwich, Connecticut, and later of other Congregational and Presbyterian churches. In 1887, he was the pastor of the Independent Presbyterian Church in Savannah, Georgia. In 1898, he was pastor of the First Church in Litchfield, Connecticut.