Standing against the whirlwind : evangelical Episcopalians in nineteenth-century America
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Standing against the whirlwind : evangelical Episcopalians in nineteenth-century America
（Religion in America series）
Oxford University Press, 1995
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Revision of thesis (doctoral)--Duke University
"The Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer prize essay of the American Society of Church History for 1992."
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Standing Against the Whirlwind is a history of the Evangelical party in the Episcopal Church in nineteenth-century America. A surprising 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 gracefully written 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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