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
The Continued Existence of Slavery
Institutional and Theological Change
Church Parties
Expansion and Missions
Western Dioceses
Foreign Missions
6. Romantic Reaction (1840–80)
A Changing Nation
The General Convention of 1844
Slavery and the Civil War
The Protestant Episcopal Freedman’s Commission
Church Parties
New Options for the Episcopal Church: Evangelical Catholics and Anglican Catholics
An Anglican Tradition
Changing Roles for Women
Frontier Missions
7. A Broad Church (1880–1920)
The 1886 General Convention
Social Needs of Industrial America
Special Ministries and New Congregations
The Church Congress
The American Church
Foreign Missions
8. The Twenties, Depression, and War (1920–45)
The Interwar Years
The Debate over the Creeds
The Decline of the Church Congress Movement
Special Ministries and Segregation
Gains and Losses for Episcopal Women
World War II
Searching for New Beginnings
9. The Church Triumphant (1945–65)
Post-war Expansion
Theology
Christian Social Relations
Institutional Change
Patterns of Church Life
Foreign Missions
Liturgy
10. A Reordered Church (1965–90)
Tumultuous Times
Statistical Decline
Liturgical Change
The Ordination of Women to the Presbyterate and Episcopate
Ecumenical Accords
Theological Probing
Social Justice
Anglican Communion
Charismatic and Renewal Movements
New Members
Points of Light
Human Sexuality
11. A Leaner, More Nimble Church (1990–)
A Period of Contrasts
Stalemate over Sexuality
Demographic Trends
Alternative Strategies
Other Causes of Conflict in the 1990s
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the Phoenix General Convention
Sexual Misconduct
Lingering Objections to the Ordination of Women
The Electronic Church
New Initiatives
A Communion-wide Debate
A Resolution to the Sexuality Debate in the Episcopal Church
A Task Force for Reimagining the Episcopal Church
Index
1. Brick Church, Jamestown, Virginia
3. Pocahontas (Metoaka or Matoaka)
