Modernity and the Dilemma of North American Anglican Identities, 1880-1950

by Katerberg, William H.

• ISBN13: 9780773521605
• ISBN10: 0773521607
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ Pr

Summary

He describes the life and work of five leaders in the Anglican Church in Canada and the Episcopal Church in the United States who came of age in the late nineteenth century and served their religious communities until the mid-twentieth century. As clergy and educators they hoped to root the faith of modern Anglicans/Episcopalians in past traditions to provide a compelling spiritual purpose and identity for the present and the future. Their attempts to articulate a historical basis for Anglican unity and Christian ecumenism often had contradictory and even sectarian results.; Modernity and the Dilemma of North American Anglican Identities, 1880B1950 offers historians and scholars of religion and culture in North America a comparative perspective and a new way to understand how a previous generation looked to the past to address the dilemmas of an uncertain present and future.

Author Biography

William H. Katerberg is associate professor of history at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: An Antique or an Anchor?	3	(17)
Anglicanism in North America to the Mid-Nineteenth Century	20	(17)
Modernity, Tradition, and the Piety of the Past	37	(27)
Dyson Hague
North American Anglicanism at the Turn of the Century	64	(15)
Anglicanism, Fundamentalism, and Modernity	79	(28)
W.H. Griffith Thomas
Apostolic Order and Evangelical Truth	107	(28)
William T. Manning
Anglicanism in North America, 1920-1950	135	(17)
Things That Remain in Liberal Anglicanism	152	(29)
Carl Eckhardt Grammer
Modernity and Mediating Anglicanism	181	(29)
Henry John Cody
Conclusion: The Modern Project, Fragmentation, and Anglican Identity	210	(15)
Appendix: Church Membership	225	(2)
Notes	227	(50)
Bibliography	277	(26)
Index	303