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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Nancy L. Rhoden. Revolutionary Anglicanism: The Colonial Church of England Clergy during the American Revolution. New York: New York University Press. 1999. Pp. xii, 205. $40.00.

One can feel only sympathy for the plight of conscientious Anglican ministers caught by the American Revolution. Political allegiance and ministerial vocation merged when ordination oaths bound clergy, as civil servants in the Church of England, to George III and the exact observance of prescribed prayers for the monarch and royal family. To side with the revolutionaries violated sacred covenants. To remain loyal churchmen, as war rippled through the colonies, meant almost certain violence, deprivation, and eventual exile. Nancy L. Rhoden tells the collective story of these men, focusing on the different ways in which individuals responded to the rebellion and satisfied their consciences. 1

The author explores familiar terrain. Studies of loyalism by William N. Nelson, Robert M. Calhoon, and others necessarily included the struggles of Anglican clergy and laity. Numerous books and articles by religious historians such as Mark Noll, Frederick V. Mills, Sr., and John F. Woolverton analyzed the dynamics of the Revolution as it affected Anglicans and the transformation that the Church of England experienced during and after the conflict. What this book promises is "a collective biography of the church's ministers and a Revolutionary history of the denomination" (p. 3). What it delivers, although interesting and informative, is ultimately incomplete. . . .

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