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
1. Brick Church, Jamestown, Virginia
3. Pocahontas (Metoaka or Matoaka)
6. St. Michael’s Church, Charleston, South Carolina
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