From Greg Wills’ Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South 1785–1900: The more the churches concerned themselves with social order, the less they exerted church discipline. From about 1850 to 1920, a period of expanding evangelical solicitude for the reformation of society, church discipline declined steadily. From temperance to Sabbatarian reform, … Continue reading Reforming Society or Churches?
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