Church and Estate

Thomas F. Rzeznik is Associate Professor of History at Seton Hall University.

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 “Money Faithfully and Judiciously Expended”2 A Controlling “Interest”3 A Labor “Exceedingly Magnificent”4 The “Quaker-Turned-Episcopal Gentry”5 The Episcopal Ascendancy6 Confronting the “Money Interests”7 Changing FortunesConclusion: LegaciesNotesBibliographyIndex

“In this remarkably rich and revealing book, Thomas Rzeznik has rediscovered the marrow and meaning of religion for the elite classes of Philadelphians. Rzeznik brings rare sensitivity and common sense to a subject too much the domain of pundits quick to dismiss the integrity of upper-class faith and too little the focus of sustained historical analysis. The result is a finely wrought book that should re-open discussions of the religious impulses of Progressivism and renew considerations of the centrality of religion in modern American life.”—Randall M. Miller, St. Joseph’s University