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Standing against the whirlwind : evangelical Episcopalians in nineteenth-century America

Author: Diana Butler Bass
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Series: Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Standing Against the Whirlwind is a history of the Evangelical party in the Episcopal Church in nineteenth-century America. A revisionist account of the church's first century, it reveals the extent to which evangelical Episcopalians helped to shape the piety, identity, theology, and mission of the church. Using the life and career of one of the party's greatest leaders, Charles Pettit McIlvaine, the second bishop  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Diana Butler Bass
ISBN: 0195085426 9780195085426
OCLC Number: 28799659
Notes: 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."
Description: xiii, 270 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: From enthusiasm to identity : an evangelical revolution in the Episcopal Church, 1740-1820 --
The evangelical mission : the spirit of true Christianity, 1820-1831 --
Episcopal distinctiveness : fighting the Protestant radicals, 1832-1838 --
"To your tents, O Israel!" : the advance of "Puseyism" and the war within the church, 1839-1852 --
Standing up for Jesus : the evangelical Episcopal quest for purity, 1853-1865 --
"The ship in tempest" : rationalism, ritualism, and the post-Civil War evangelical worldview, 1866-1874 --
Conclusion : whither evangelicalism?
Series Title: Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
Responsibility: Diana Hochstedt Butler.
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Standing Against the Whirlwind is a history of the Evangelical party in the Episcopal Church in nineteenth-century America. A revisionist account of the church's first century, it reveals the extent to which evangelical Episcopalians helped to shape the piety, identity, theology, and mission of the church. Using the life and career of one of the party's greatest leaders, Charles Pettit McIlvaine, the second bishop of Ohio, Diana Butler blends institutional history with biography to explore the vicissitudes and tribulations of evangelicals in a church that often seemed inhospitable to their version of the Gospel. This narrative history of a neglected movement sheds light on evangelical religion within a particular denomination and broadens the interpretation of nineteenth-century American evangelicalism as a whole. In addition, it elucidates such wider cultural and religious issues as the meaning of millennialism and the nature of the crisis over slavery.

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