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By Jason S. Lantzer
In this accomplished and obtainable ebook, Jason S. Lantzer chronicles the increase and fall of the Seven Sisters, documenting the ways that they stopped shaping American tradition and started to be formed by means of it. After reviewing and critiquing the traditional decline narrative of the Mainline he argues for a reconceptualization of the Mainline for the twenty-first century, a brand new grouping of 7 Sisters that seeks to acknowledge the vibrancy of yank Christianity.
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With thriving churches in Boston (Tremont Temple and Park Street), and with famed evangelist, innovator, and showman Aimee Semple McPherson in Los Angeles, there was as much ground gained in the cities as there were souls lost. Christians were more than willing to make their case for faith in the city, often convincingly so. Moody believed that if the cities could be saved, the nation and the world would then follow. 40 In the long term, however, it was industry that transformed the nation and posed the greatest challenge to the Mainline.
Furthermore, tolerance, even of a grudging kind, is not the same thing as acceptance. While other variants of the faith might have been allowed, this did not stop most colonies from having an official, established church. 41 But this also masks a larger problem, assuming that one denomination defined the United States. Without taking anything away from the important role of the Puritans, it is more useful for our purposes to focus on the immense religious diversity of the colonies and what that came to mean for future generations of Americans.
In many ways Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians were in the best position to capitalize on the dislocations of westward expansion and industrialization, which included urbanization and immigration as well. For one, the evangelical denominations respected the mobility of the American population, whether native-born or immigrant. They went where the people were, rather than relying on “cradle to grave” membership or denominational loyalty. Additionally, the evangelical denominations were willing to act to deal with the problems of their time without much theological angst.