A History of the Episcopal Church - Third Revised Edition

Robert W. Prichard

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This thorough, carefully researched history sets church events against the background of social changes. This third revised edition will be up-to-date through the events of the 2012 General Convention of the Episcopal Church.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Episcopalian
• Philosophie et théologie
• Christianity

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• Publié par: Church Publishing Incorporated
• Date de parution: 01 octobre 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780819228789
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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A HISTORY OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Third Revised Edition
ROBERT W. PRICHARD
Copyright 2014 by Robert W. Prichard First edition published in 1991. Revised (Second) edition published in 1999.
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Cover illustration: Robert Hunt, Samuel Seabury, William White and Harriet Cannon, Trinity Memorial Church, Warren, Pennsylvania (courtesy of Willet Stained Glass Studio) Cover design by Laurie Klein Westhafer Typeset by Denise Hoff
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
A catalog record of this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8192-2877-2 (pbk.) ISBN-13: 978-0-8192-2878-9 (ebook)
In thanksgiving for the lives of Ed (1920-2000) and Nancy (1916-2006) Prichard, my loving parents
Contents
Illustrations
Tables
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface 1999
Preface to the First Edition
1. Founding the Church in an Age of Fragmentation (1585-1688)
Early Colonization in America
English Christianity and the Reformation
The Religious Character of the Virginia Colony under Elizabeth and James
Colonization under Charles I and during the Commonwealth
The Colonies after the Restoration
Indentured and Enslaved Servants
2. The Age of Reason and the American Colonies (1688-1740)
The Glorious Revolution
The Royal Society
The Latitudinarian Bishops
New Legislation
The Commissary System
The SPG and the SPCK
Ministry to African Americans
The Colonial Church in the Eighteenth Century
Roles for Women
3. The Great Awakening (1740-76)
George Whitefield
Sentimentalist Preaching and the New Birth
The Progress of the Awakening
The Awakening in the Colonial Church of England
The Effects of the Awakening
The Membership
Provincial Assemblies and the Call for the Episcopate
Architecture and Church Music
4. The American Revolution (1776-1800)
Peace, Peace, But There Is No Peace
The Divisions of War
Loyalists and Patriots
Native Americans and African Americans
Disestablishment
Reorganization
Activity in the Diocese of Maryland
William White and The Case of the Episcopal Churches Considered
Samuel Seabury and the Church of England in New England
The Organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church
The General Conventions of 1789
5. Rational Orthodoxy (1800-1840)
A Retreat from Revolutionary Goals
Morality and the Church
Education
Black Episcopalians
The Continued Existence of Slavery
Institutional and Theological Change
Church Parties
Expansion and Missions
Western Dioceses
Foreign Missions
6. Romantic Reaction (1840-80)
A Changing Nation
The General Convention of 1844
Slavery and the Civil War
The Protestant Episcopal Freedman s Commission
Church Parties
New Options for the Episcopal Church: Evangelical Catholics and Anglican Catholics
An Anglican Tradition
Changing Roles for Women
Frontier Missions
7. A Broad Church (1880-1920)
The 1886 General Convention
Social Needs of Industrial America
Special Ministries and New Congregations
The Church Congress
The American Church
Foreign Missions
8. The Twenties, Depression, and War (1920-45)
The Interwar Years
The Debate over the Creeds
The Decline of the Church Congress Movement
Special Ministries and Segregation
Gains and Losses for Episcopal Women
World War II
Searching for New Beginnings
9. The Church Triumphant (1945-65)
Post-war Expansion
Theology
Christian Social Relations
Institutional Change
Patterns of Church Life
Foreign Missions
Liturgy
10. A Reordered Church (1965-90)
Tumultuous Times
Statistical Decline
Liturgical Change
The Ordination of Women to the Presbyterate and Episcopate
Ecumenical Accords
Theological Probing
Social Justice
Anglican Communion
Charismatic and Renewal Movements
New Members
Points of Light
Human Sexuality
11. A Leaner, More Nimble Church (1990-)
A Period of Contrasts
Stalemate over Sexuality
Demographic Trends
Alternative Strategies
Other Causes of Conflict in the 1990s
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the Phoenix General Convention
Sexual Misconduct
Lingering Objections to the Ordination of Women
The Electronic Church
New Initiatives
A Communion-wide Debate
A Resolution to the Sexuality Debate in the Episcopal Church
A Task Force for Reimagining the Episcopal Church
Index
Illustrations
1. Brick Church, Jamestown, Virginia
2. Robert Hunt
3. Pocahontas (Metoaka or Matoaka)
4. Commissary James Blair
5. The Bermuda Group
6. St. Michael s Church, Charleston, South Carolina
7. Timothy Cutler
8. Samuel Johnson
9. George Whitefield
10. Whitefield s moveable pulpit
11. John Wesley and his Friends at Oxford
12. Old Chapel, Clarke County, Virginia
13. Charles Inglis
14. William Smith
15. William White
16. Samuel Seabury
17. Seabury and White
18. The elderly William White
19. Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton
20. Absalom Jones
21. William Meade
22. John Henry Hobart
23. Philander Chase
24. Benjamin Bosworth Smith
25. James Hervey Otey
26. Jackson Kemper
27. Trinity Church, Portland, Connecticut
28. William Augustus Muhlenberg
29. James DeKoven
30. Levi Silliman Ives
31. Constance and Companions
32. Enmegahbowh
33. Indian Prisoners and Ladies Archery Club
34. The House of Bishops in 1892
35. Mary Abbot Emery Twing
36. Julia Chester Emery
37. Margaret Theresa Emery
38. Phillips Brooks
39. William Reed Huntington
40. Theodore Roosevelt at the Laying the Foundation of the Washington National Cathedral
41. Kamehameha IV
42. Emma
43. John Joseph Pershing
44. St. Francis Mission
45. George Wharton Pepper with Henry J. Heinz
46. Deaconess Harriet Bedell
47. Li Tim Oi and Joyce Bennett
48. The Episcopal Church Welcomes You
49. Christian Living Conferees
50. John Walker
51. All Souls Church, Berkeley, California
52. John Elbridge Hines
53. John Maury Allin
54. The Washington National Cathedral
55. Barbara Harris and David Johnson
56. Harold S. Jones
57. Desmond Tutu and Edmond Browning
58. Edmond Browning s Institution Service
59. Gluten-free Communion
60. Frank Tracey Griswold
61. V. Gene Robinson
62. Katharine Jefferts Schori
Tables
1. A Partial List of Colonial Commissaries
2. The Episcopal Church in the Original Thirteen States
3. Dioceses in States Admitted to the Union 1791-1859
4. Response to the Oxford Movement in the House of Deputies (1844)
5. Ratio of Church Members and Communicants
6. African American Bishops in the Domestic and Overseas Dioceses of the Protestant Episcopal Church
7. Baptized Membership (1986-1996)
8. Women Bishops in the United States
Preface to the Third Edition
Those who are acquainted with the two prevision editions of this work will see much in it that is familiar. For major portions of the book, the narrative remains unchanged. Yet there are, however, some significant differences. These differences are the results of five factors: incorporation of the insights of new scholarship, the extension of the narrative to include the fifteen years since the publication of the last edition, adoption of some new conventions about terminology, the correction of errors, and the inclusion of information excluded from the earlier edition that subsequent years of teaching have shown to be of interest to students of the history of the Episcopal Church.
Most of the new scholarship that I have sought to incorporate concerns the English Reformation, the institution of slavery, the state of Christianity in the eighteenth century, the American Civil War, and the creation of Anglican Communion in the nineteenth century. In most cases readers will have to refer to the notes to see the new sources on which I have relied.
The years from 1999 to 2014 have been important ones for the Episcopal Church, a period that includes important ecumenical agreements, the election of the first woman as presiding bishop, the consecration of the first openly gay bishop, a major schism, and growing tension in the Anglican Communion. I appreciate the opportunity given to me by Church Publishing to extend the narrative to include these elements.
The two major places in which I have adopted new terminology concern the succession of bishops and the language used to identify members of the colonial Church of England. I have adopted the language used in recent ecumenical discussions and referred to continuity in ordinations running back to the early church as episcopal succession, rather than apostolic tradition or apostolic succession. The latter terms are used in contemporary ecumenical discussions to refer broadly to all that is handed down from the early church-teaching, preaching, worship, ordained ministry, social action-and not just to forms of ministry imparted by the laying on of hands by bishops. I also have referred to the members of the colonial church as members of the Church of England, reserving the term Anglican for the mid-nineteenth century and thereafter, when the term was actually in use.
Readers of earlier editions of this book have been generous with their time and have pointed to errors, which I have attempted to correct in this edition. In previous editions, for example, I incorrectly identified the parish of the first candidate for the episcopate elected in Virginia and misunderstood the lay status of Charles Miller of King s Chapel. I hope that readers of this current edition will be equally ki