I. Ancestral heritage, 1725-1784 -- 1. The Wesleys -- 2. The Wesleyan movement -- 3. Roots and structure of Wesley's theology -- 4. Fruits of Wesley's theology -- 5. Lay beginnings -- 6. The American mission -- 7. Methodism in the American revolution -- 8. From society to church -- 9. Origins of the United brethren -- 10. Origins of the evangelical association -- II. Pioneer development, 1784-1860 -- 11. The shape of the church -- 12. The shape of the ministry -- 13. Westward East -- 14. Revivalism and camp meetings -- 15. The beginnings of black Methodism -- 16. The reform movement and the Methodist protestant church -- 17. Slavery -- 18. Division and dissension -- 19. Books and teachers -- 20. Early theological expression -- III. Settled institution, 1860-1914 -- 21. Civil war and reconstruction -- 22. Recovery south and growth north -- 23. Westward West -- 24. Black churches -- 25. Ethnic varieties -- 26. Sectarian movements -- 27. Education and the printed word -- 28. New theology -- 29. Missionary enterprise -- 30. Methodism and society -- IV. Ecumenical transformation, 1914-1970 -- 31. Ecumenical beginnings -- 32. Denominational development -- 33. New Liberalism and New Reformation -- 34. The Social gospel -- 35. The Methodist church, 1939-1968 -- 36. The Evangelical United Brethren -- 37. United Methodism in American culture -- 38. Denominationalism and Christian unity.