Standing Against the Whirlwind: Evangelical Episcopalians in Nineteenth-Century America

by Diana Hochstedt Butler and Diana Butler Bass

Standing Against the Whirlwind is a history of the Evangelical party in the Episcopal Church in nineteenth-century America. A surprising revisionist account of the church's first century, it reveals the extent to which evangelical Episcopalians helped to shape the piety, identity, theology, and mission of the church. Using the life and career of one of the party's greatest leaders, Charles Pettit McIlvaine, the second bishop of Ohio, Diana Butler...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195085426
• ISBN13: 9780195085426
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"