This comprehensive one-volume history of American Methodism, the first in many years, trace sthe development of a new church in a new nation from its new beginnings with the Wesleys in England to the changes and challenges of later twentieth-century America. Th includes--as no other Methodist history has done so far--the story of Evangelical United Brethren Church as part of Methodism. The cultural and religious pluralism of the country today: Black Methodism, the cotnribution of women, the theological trends across 200 years--all emerge in clear detail. The story of the various branches of Methodism is followed through the years.
