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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823775403321

Autore

Bass Diana Butler <1959->

Titolo

Standing against the whirlwind : evangelical Episcopalians in nineteenth-century America / / Diana Hochstedt Butler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1995

ISBN

0-19-774129-0

1-280-44211-5

0-19-535905-4

1-4237-5859-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 pages)

Collana

Religion in America series

Disciplina

283.73

283/.73

Soggetti

Evangelicalism - Episcopal Church - History - 19th century

Interdenominational cooperation - United States - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Duke University.

"The Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer prize essay of the American Society of Church History for 1993."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-261) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. From Enthusiasm to Identity: An Evangelical Revolution in the Episcopal Church, 1740-1820; 2. The Evangelical Mission: The Spirit of True Christianity, 1820-1831; 3. Episcopal Distinctiveness: Fighting the Protestant Radicals, 1832-1838; 4. ""To Your Tents, O Israel!"": The Advance of ""Puseyism"" and the War Within the Church, 1839-1852; 5. Standing Up for Jesus: The Evangelical Episcopal Quest for Purity, 1853-1865; 6. ""The Ship in Tempest"": Rationalism, Ritualism, and the Post-Civil War Evangelical Worldview, 1866-1874; 7. Conclusion: Whither Evangelicalism?; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This study shows that, contrary to common belief, the 19th-century American Episcopal Church contained a large evangelical party that was deeply indebted and closely related to both Anglican and early American interdenominational evangelicalism.