The ISAE Confessional Traditions Project Presents:
"Holding on to the Faith: Confessional Traditions in American Christianity"
The following papers will be presented and discussed at an invitational consultation held at Wheaton College on September 29 and 30, 2005. Conference participants can view the papers (as they are completed and turned in to us) starting Friday, September 16. Click on the paper you would like to view, and then use the password that was emailed to you when prompted. If there are any problems, please email isae@wheaton.edu.
| "Contesting the Faith: The Internal Struggle of American Lutheranism" | Mary Todd, Ohio Dominican University, Columbus, OH |
| "Tammany Catholicism: The Semi-Established Church in the Immigrant City" | Christopher Shannon, Christendom College, Front Royal, VA |
| "Mennonites and Democracy: Shaped by War and Rumors of War" | James C. Juhnke, Bethel College, North Newton, KS |
| "Who's Got the Spirit in the Episcopal Church? A Case Study of the “Connecticut 6”" | The Rev. Dr. Kathryn Greene-McCreight, St. John's Episcopal Church, New Haven, CT |
| "Presbyterian Confessional Identity and Its Dilemmas" | James H. Moorhead, Princeton Theological Seminary |
| "Eastern Orthodox Christian Churches In North America: Continuity and Change in the Twenty-First Century" | Frances Kostarelos, Governor's State University, University Park, IL |
| "Eternally True, Variably Useful: How Confessions Worked in Some American Reformed Churches" | James D. Bratt, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI |
| "After Establishment What? The Paradox of the History of the Episcopal Church in America" | Robert Bruce Mullin, The General Theological Seminary, New York, NY |
| Susan W. McArver, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, SC | |
| Also, for a general understanding of the challenges faced by the Russian Orthodx church in America, see this article. | Paul Meyendorff. "The Liturgical Path of Orthodoxy in America." St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly 40:1/2 (1996), 43-64. |