That Blessed Liberty: Episcopal Bishops and the Development of the American Republic 1789-1860

by Miles Smith IV, Adam Carrington

Genres: History

179 pages, Hardcover

Published September 19, 2025

Reviews

[Caroline · Rating 5 out of 5]

10 sketches of Episcopalian bishops in the Early Republic era paint an instructive and inspiring picture of a church body navigating serious debate such as the Oxford Movement debate and high/low church split writ large, abolition, and response to evangelical revivals all while maintaining a degree of ecclesiastical cohesion. It’s helpful to see a variety of approaches to these issues represented in the different figures, some more sympathetic to Oxford or to Calvinism, but each devoted to the uniqueness of the Anglican Church as a Reformation tradition and to the propagation of American religion. A short but substantial read.

[Miles Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Im giving Adam five starts but not rating me lol.