This Far by Faith

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

David R. Contosta

1 The Colonial Church: Founding the Church, 1695–1775

Deborah Mathias Gough

2 From Anglicans to Episcopalians: The Revolutionary Years, 1775–1790

William Pencak

3 Identity, Spirituality, and Organization: The Episcopal Church in Early Pennsylvania, 1790–1820

Emma Jones Lapsansky-Werner

4 New Growth and New Challenges, 1820–1840

Charles D. Cashdollar

5 The Church and the City, 1840–1865

Marie Conn

6 The Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1865–1910

Ann Norton Greene

7 The Church in Prosperity, Depression, and War, 1910–1945

Thomas F. Rzeznik

8 A Church on Wheels, 1945–1963

William W. Cutler III

9 Social Justice, the Church, and the Counterculture, 1963–1979

Sheldon Hackney

10 A Perfect Storm, 1979–2010

David R. Contosta

Contributors

Index

“It is a pleasure . . . to read this impressive and accessible diocesan history. . . .

“. . . This is an excellent history. It is critical to our understanding of the Episcopal Church nationally, and in many ways, constitutes a microcosm of American mainline religion.”

—Philip Jenkins, Pennsylvania History