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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
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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) andNancy (1916–2006) Prichard,my loving parents
Contents
1. Founding the Church in an Age of Fragmentation (1585–1688)
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 Colonial Church in the Eighteenth Century
3. The Great Awakening (1740–76)
Sentimentalist Preaching and the New Birth
The Awakening in the Colonial Church of England
Provincial Assemblies and the Call for the Episcopate
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