Episcopal Vision / American Reality: High Church Theology and Social Thought in Evangelical America

by Robert Bruce Mullin

The high church movement within the Episcopal Church was antithetical to both the intellectual and social worlds of antebellum America, for it challenged the underlying assumptions of evangelicalism and held itself aloof from reform impulses. This book by Robert Bruce Mullin--the first to study the high church movement from the context of nineteenth-century American culture--discusses how the spiritual descendents of those who harassed the Pilgrims...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300034873
• ISBN13: 9780300034875
• Release Date: September 1986
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"