Copyright © 2014 by Robert W. Prichard

      First edition published in 1991. Revised (Second) edition published in 1999.

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      Cover illustration: Robert Hunt, Samuel Seabury, William White and Harriet Cannon, Trinity Memorial Church, Warren, Pennsylvania (courtesy of Willet Stained Glass Studio)

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      ISBN-13: 978-0-8192-2877-2 (pbk.)

      ISBN-13: 978-0-8192-2878-9 (ebook)

       In thanksgiving for the lives of Ed (1920–2000) andNancy (1916–2006) Prichard,my loving parents

       Contents

Illustrations

Tables

Preface to the Third Edition

Preface 1999

Preface to the First Edition

1. Founding the Church in an Age of Fragmentation (1585–1688)

Early Colonization in America

English Christianity and the Reformation

The Religious Character of the Virginia Colony under Elizabeth and James

Colonization under Charles I and during the Commonwealth

The Colonies after the Restoration

Indentured and Enslaved Servants

2. The Age of Reason and the American Colonies (1688–1740)

The Glorious Revolution

The Royal Society

The Latitudinarian Bishops

New Legislation

The Commissary System

The SPG and the SPCK

Ministry to African Americans

The Colonial Church in the Eighteenth Century

Roles for Women

3. The Great Awakening (1740–76)

George Whitefield

Sentimentalist Preaching and the New Birth

The Progress of the Awakening

The Awakening in the Colonial Church of England

The Effects of the Awakening

The Membership

Provincial Assemblies and the Call for the Episcopate

Architecture and Church Music

       4. The American Revolution (1776–1800)

       Peace, Peace, But There Is No Peace

       The Divisions of War

       Loyalists and Patriots

       Native Americans and African Americans

       Disestablishment

       Reorganization

       Activity in the Diocese of Maryland

       William White and The Case of the Episcopal Churches Considered

       Samuel Seabury and the Church of England in New England

       The Organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church

       The General Conventions of 1789

       5. Rational Orthodoxy (1800–1840)

       A Retreat from Revolutionary Goals

       Morality and the Church

       Education

       Black Episcopalians