This Far by Faith

Tradition and Change in the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

AvDavid R. Contosta,David R. (Chestnut Hill College) Contosta,David R. Contosta

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The history of the Diocese of Pennsylvania is in many ways a history of the Episcopal Church at large. It remains one of the largest and most influential dioceses in the national church. Its story has paralleled and illustrated the challenges and accomplishments of the wider denomination—and of issues that concern the American people as a whole. In This Far by Faith, ten professional historians provide the first complete history of the Diocese of Pennsylvania. It will become essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the history and significance of the Episcopal Church and of its evolution in the Greater Philadelphia area.Aside from the editor, the contributors are Charles Cashdollar, Marie Conn, William W. Cutler III, Deborah Mathias Gough, Ann Greene, Sheldon Hackney, Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner, William Pencak, and Thomas F. Rzeznik.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-07-15
Mått152 x 229 x 29 mm
Vikt710 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor408
FörlagPennsylvania State University Press
ISBN9780271052458

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ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesList of AbbreviationsIntroductionDavid R. Contosta1The Colonial Church: Founding the Church, 1695–1775Deborah Mathias Gough2From Anglicans to Episcopalians: The Revolutionary Years, 1775–1790William Pencak 3Identity, Spirituality, and Organization: The Episcopal Church in Early Pennsylvania, 1790–1820Emma Jones Lapsansky-Werner4New Growth and New Challenges, 1820–1840Charles D. Cashdollar5The Church and the City, 1840–1865Marie Conn6The Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1865–1910Ann Norton Greene7The Church in Prosperity, Depression, and War, 1910–1945Thomas F. Rzeznik8A Church on Wheels, 1945–1963William W. Cutler III9Social Justice, the Church, and the Counterculture, 1963–1979Sheldon Hackney10A Perfect Storm, 1979–2010David R. ContostaContributorsIndex

“With telling detail and compelling narrative, the essays in This Far by Faith track the origins and evolution of an important diocese that charted ‘a middle way’ for American Christianity over four centuries. Throughout the book the authors show a diocese struggling with such varied, but intersecting, issues as a changing geographical and demographic compass, race, doctrinal disputes, discipline, and personality. This Far by Faith opens the red door to the whole church, from pulpit to pews. In doing so, it provides a most sensitive and sensible examination of a diocese as a living organism. It also provides a model for writing church history hereafter. It is, then, a book that transcends its subject and invites anyone interested in American religion to consider its method and meaning.”—Randall M. Miller, St. Joseph’s University