| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.2

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Book Review

Revolutionary Anglicanism: The Colonial Church of England Clergy during the American Revolution. By Nancy L. Rhoden. (New York: New York University Press, 1999. xii, 205 pp. $40.00, isbn 0-8147-7519-5.)

Nancy L. Rhoden's Revolutionary Anglicanism makes a valuable contribution to the study of the late-eighteenth-century Church of England in America. By focusing on Anglican clergy during the Revolution, the book supplements Frederick V. Mills Sr.'s Bishops by Ballot (1978). Justifying her study of the clergy as a body distinct from the laity, Rhoden points to the required clerical oaths of fidelity both to the monarch and to the Book of Common Prayer. Such professions were not required of the laity. Ministers of the first British Empire's national church took them as seriously as the colonial legislatures took oaths of loyalty to the Patriot cause, which increasingly left little room to mince matters either way. With a nose for nuance, Rhoden describes the complexity of a divided church. In the rush of events, the clergy were depoliticized, not only, as they hoped, for hide saving but because, as a Connecticut minister judged, public worship was of too much consequence to close Anglican churches "on account of a few words in the liturgy," that is, prayers for the king. . . .

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