| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.5

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Canada and the United States

John F. Woolverton. Robert H. Gardiner and the Reunification of Worldwide Christianity in the Progressive Era. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 2005. Pp. xv, 270. $42.50.
The surge of optimism that propelled the Social Gospel, liberal currents in Protestant theology, and the Progressive movement in politics also sparked the modern ecumenical movement. Among Americans, John R. Mott remains the American most frequently linked not just to cooperative ventures among various Christian bodies but also to moves toward organic reunion of the various branches of Christianity. Attorney and Episcopal layman Robert H. Gardiner, although less well-known today, was also a major player in both national and international moves to end divisions among Christians and create one truly universal church. Historian John F. Woolverton does much to remedy the oversight of Gardiner in this carefully crafted study.	1
Woolverton provides what might be called a public biography. That is, he does not focus much on Gardiner the man or even on what led him to devote probably more time to religious ventures than to his Boston law practice as the ecumenical movement gathered momentum. Rather, drawing extensively on letters and manuscripts, hitherto rarely explored, he portrays the public side of Gardiner as one who attempted to mediate between high church Episcopalians and more evangelically inclined ones to bring them all into a sometimes reluctant endorsement of the idea of a single Christian church that would somehow embrace all people.	. . .

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