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 out of England defined themselves in an
America that was "the land of the Pilgrims' pride." Mullin
discusses the problems that faced the Episcopal Church after the
American Revolution, analyzes the intellectual currents in
Anglicanism of this period, and sketches the backgrounds of the
chief individuals involved with the high church revival-in
particular, John Henry Hobart, later bishop of New York. He shows
how Hobart's theological and social-alternative synthesis, which
called for a radical division between church and state, provoked
controversy with evangelical Protestants on issues as diverse as
theology, revivalism, temperance, and slavery. Tracing the history
of the Episcopal Church from the early nineteenth century, when it
was seen as an ark of refuge by critics of the "excesses" of
evangelicalism, to 1870, when the antebellum high church synthesis
had largely collapsed, Mullin explains its success and subsequent
decline. Mullin's examination of the high church movement not only
sheds light on the reasons for the flourishing of this alternative
social and intellectual vision but also helps to account for the
general crisis that confronted all American religious communities
at the end of the century. In addition, his reconstruction of the
tension between high church Episcopalians and evangelical
Protestants provides a new historical perspective from which to
view the larger debate over the nature and direction of the
antebellum nation.
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