Download or read book Growing Toward Unity: written by Elsabeth Slaughter Hilke and published by The Pilgrim Press. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Growing Toward Unity" considers the theological and political pressures, both nationally and globally, that drove the ecumenical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, up to and including the formation of the United Church of Christ. Edited by Elsabeth Slaughter Hilke, with a Postscript by Thomas E. Dipko. Series editor Barbara Brown Zikmund.