Author Lyle Schaller Dead at 91 Contact: Brenda Smotherman Associate Publicity Manager Abingdon Press E: bsmotherman@abingdonpress.com P: 615-749-6290  (Nashville, TN) – Abingdon Press is saddened to share that respected author Lyle E. Schaller, widely considered by pastors as the most important and influential observer of church culture during the twentieth century in the United States, died March 18, 2015 at the age of 91.  Schaller’s first book, A Plan For Protestantism in Urban America, was published by Abingdon Press in 1964 and probed the…