Select Bibliography of Books on the Episcopal Church

          
GENERAL HISTORY

Addison, James Thayer. (1951). The Episcopal Church in the United States 1789-1931. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Albright, Raymond W. (1964). A History of the Protestant Episcopal Church. New York: Macmillan.

Armentrout, Don S., & Slocum, Robert Boak. (1994). Documents of Witness: A History of the Episcopal Church, 1782-1985. New York: Church Hymnal Corporation.

Chorley, Edward Clowes. (1946). Men and Movements in the American Episcopal Church. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Holmes, David L. (1993). A Brief History of the Episcopal Church. Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International.

Manross, William Wilson. (1950). A History of the American Episcopal Church. New York: Morehouse-Gorham.

Prichard, Robert W. (1991). A History of the Episcopal Church. Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing.

Prichard, Robert W. (Ed.). (1986). Readings from the History of the Episcopal Church. Wilton, CT: Morehouse-Barlow.

Webber, Christopher L. (1999). Welcome to the Episcopal Church: An Introduction to Its History, Faith, and Worship. Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing.

 

REFERENCE SOURCES

Armentrout, Don S., & Slocum, Robert Boak. (Eds.). ([1999]). An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church: A User Friendly Reference for Episcopalians. New York: Church Publishing Incorporated.

Caldwell, Sandra M, & Caldwell, Ronald J. (1993). The History of the Episcopal Church in America, 1607-1991: A Bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing.

The Episcopal Clerical Directory 2001. (2001). New York: Church Publishing.

Wall, John N. (2000). A Dictionary for Episcopalians. Boston, MA: Cowley Publications.

 

INSTITUTIONAL HISTORIES

Emery, Julia C. (1921). A Century of Endeavor, 1821-1921: A Record of The First Hundred Years of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. New York: Department of Missions.

Foster, Roland. (1982). The Role of the Presiding Bishop. Cincinnati, OH: Forward Movement Publications.

Martin, Harold C. (1986). "Outlasting Marble and Brass:" The History of The Church Pension Fund. New York: Church Hymnal Corporation.

Moriarty, Michael. (1996). The Liturgical Revolution: Prayer Book Revision and Associated Parishes: A Generation of Change in the Episcopal Church. New York: Church Hymnal Corporation.

Rodman, Edward. (1990). Let There Be Peace Among Us: A Story of the Union of Black Episcopalians. Lawrenceville, VA: Brunswick.

 

FOREIGN MISSIONS

Chen, Kaiyi. (2001). Seeds From the West: St. John's Medical School, Shanghai, 1880-1952. Chicago: Imprint Publications.

Douglas, Ian T. (1996). Fling Out the Banner! The National Church Ideal and the Foreign Mission of the Episcopal Church. New York: Church Hymnal Corporation.

Dunn, D. Elwood. (1992). A History of the Episcopal Church in Liberia, 1821-1980. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press.

Hemphill, Elizabeth Anne. (1969). The Road to KEEP: The Story of Paul Rusch in Japan. New York: Walker/Weatherill.

Rubinstein, Murray A. (1996). The Origins of the Anglo-American Missionary Enterprise in China, 1807-1840. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press.

 

SPECIALIZED MINISTRIES

Anderson, Owanah. (1997). 400 Years: Anglican/Episcopal Missions Among American Indians. Cincinnati, OH: Forward Movement Publications.

Bragg, George Freeman, Jr. (1922). History of the Afro-American Group of the Episcopal Church. Baltimore, MD: Church Advocate Press.

Brewer, Clifton Hartwell. (1924). A History of Religious Education in the Episcopal Church to 1835. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Brown, Leo Maxwell, Davidson, William, & Brown, Allen. (1997). Vision Fulfilling: The Story of Rural and Small Community Work of the Episcopal Church during the Twentieth Century. Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing.

Cully, Kendig B. (Ed.). (1966). The Episcopal Church and Education. New York: Morehouse-Barlow.

Darling, Pamela W. (1994). New Wine: The Story of Women Transforming Leadership and Power in the Episcopal Church. Boston: Cowley Publications.

Lewis, Harold T. (1996). Yet With a Steady Beat: The African American Struggle for Recognition in the Episcopal Church. Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International.

Otani, Andrew N. (1980). A History of Japanese-American Episcopal Churches. Privately published.

Rousmaniere, Leah Robinson. (1995). Anchored Within the Vail: A Pictorial History of the Seamen's Church Institute. New York: Seamen's Church Institute.

Shattuck, Gardiner H., Jr. (2000). Episcopalians & Race: Civil War to Civil Rights. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky.

Young, Frances M. (1979). Thankfulness Unites: A History of the United Thank Offering. Cincinnati, OH: Forward Movement Publications.

 

COLONIAL ANGLICANISM

Bridenbaugh, Carl. (1962). Mitre and Sceptre: Transatlantic Faiths, Ideas, Personalities, and Politics 1689-1775. London: Oxford University Press.

Cornwall, Aaron Woolley. (1988). A Pictorial History of the Anglican Churches in Colonial America, 1607-1776. Winston-Salem, NC: Hunter Publishing Company.

Doll, Peter. (2000). Revolution, Religion, and National Identity: Imperial Anglicanism in British North America, 1745-1795. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

Rhoden, Nancy. (1999). Revolutionary Anglicanism: The Colonial Church of England Clergy During the American Revolution. New York: New York University Press.

Upton, Dell. (1997). Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Woolverton, John Frederick. (1984). Colonial Anglicanism in North America. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

 

THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION

Doe, Norman. (1998). Canon Law in the Anglican Communion: A Worldwide Perspective. Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press.

Jasper, R.C.D. (1989). The Development of the Anglican Liturgy, 1662-1980. London: SPCK.

Sachs, William L. (1993). The Transformation of Anglicanism: From State Church to Global Community. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press.

Sykes, Stephen, Booty, John, & Knight, Jonathan. (Eds.). (1988). The Study of Anglicanism. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press.

 

LITURGY

Hatchett, Marion J. (1982). The Making of the First American Book of Common Prayer. New York: Seabury Press.

Meyers, Ruth A. (1997). Continuing the Reformation: Re-Visioning Baptism in the Episcopal Church. New York: Church Publishing Incorporated.

Stuhlman, Byron D. (1988). Eucharistic Celebration, 1789-1979. New York: Church Hymnal Corporation.


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