Norman A. Beck

Respectable Methodism

History & Biography

“Respectable Methodism is a well-researched and well-documented exposition of the efforts of Nathan Bangs that shaped an early nineteenth-century frontier phenomenon into a respected American Methodist organization. Flores demonstrates convincingly that the desire for respectability by American people and Bangs’ contributions ‘intertwined to form a double-helix relationship’ producing a ‘new genetic code for the social structure’ of American Methodist Christianity.”