Standing against the whirlwind
Subtitle: evangelical Episcopalians in nineteenth-century America
By: Diana Hochstedt Butler.
Series: Religion in America series; Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Episcopal Church -- History -- 19th century.; Evangelicalism -- Episcopal Church -- History -- 19th century.; Interdenominational cooperation -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Description: Standing Against the Whirlwind is the only contemporary account of a little-studied aspect of nineteenth-century evangelicalism - the Evangelical party in the Episcopal Church in America. A revisionist account of the church's first century, it reveals the surprising 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 Hochstedt Butler blends institutional history with biography to explore the vicissitudes and tribulations of evangelicals in a church that often seemed inhospitable to their version of the Gospel.

The result is a fascinating picture of the struggle and ultimate failure of the movement - a loss, Butler shows, not to the ritualist opponents against whom they struggled for the better part of the century, but to the liberal forces of the secularized twentieth century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-261) and index.
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Duke University.
"The Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer prize essay of the American Society of Church History for 1993."