America's First Chaplain: The Life and Times of the Reverend Jacob Duché

by Kevin J. Dellape

America's First Chaplain studies the family background, education, ministerial career, ideology, political activities, exile to England, and return to America of Jacob Duch , Anglican minister of Philadelphia's Christ Church during the American Revolution. Duch played a critical role in the early stages of the revolution as the spiritual mentor of revolutionaries but underwent a process of disaffection as the revolution's goals and leadership changed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161146143X
• ISBN13: 9781611461435
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Lehigh University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.4"