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

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 270 pages) Series Religion in America series Religion in America series (Oxford University Press) 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? Summary 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 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." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-261) and index Notes Print version record Subject Episcopal Church -- History -- 19th century SUBJECT Episcopal Church fast Subject Evangelicalism -- Episcopal Church -- History -- 19th century Interdenominational cooperation -- United States -- History -- 19th century RELIGION -- Christianity -- Episcopalian. Evangelicalism -- Episcopal Church Interdenominational cooperation Evangelischen. United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 1423758595 9781423758594

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