For the Union of Evangelical Christendom: The Irony of the Reformed Episcopalians - Softcover

Guelzo, Allen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0271010037 ISBN 13: 9780271010038

Publisher: Penn State University Press, 1994

Synopsis

American Episcopalians have long prided themselves on their love of consensus and their position as the church of American elites. They have, in the process, often forgotten that during the nineteenth century their church was racked by a divisive struggle that threatened to tear apart the very fabric of the Episcopal Church. On one side of this struggle was a powerful and aggressive Evangelical party who hoped to make the Episcopal Church into the democratic head of "the sisterhood of Evangelical Churches" in America; on the other side was the Oxford Movement, equally powerful and aggressive but committed to a range of Romantic principles which celebrated disillusion and disgust with evangelicalism and democracy alike.. The resulting conflict--over theology, liturgy, and, above all, culture--led to the schism of 1873, in which many Evangelicals left the church to form the Reformed Episcopal Church. For the Union of Evangelical Christendom tells this largely forgotten story using the ca

About this title

About the Author

Allen C. Guelzo is Grace F. Kea Associate Professor of American History at Eastern College and author of Edwards on the Will (1989).

Review

“For too long the Reformed Episcopalians have appeared to be dusty artifacts in the attic of American religious history. But in Allen Guelzo's deft hands, their story turns out to be both important and fascinating, a vivid depiction of the dynamics of religious life in America a century ago.”

—Nathan O. Hatch, University of Notre Dame

Edition details

• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0271010037
• ISBN 13: 9780271010038
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416