A War of Religion

Part I. A Century of Controversies

1. The Seeds of Discord: An English Church Established in Boston
James B. Bell

2. Discord Enlarged: The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
James B. Bell

3. A Handmaiden for Episcopacy: John Checkley of Boston
James B. Bell

4. The English Origins of a Colonial American Controversy
James B. Bell

5. Noah Hobart Decries Anglican Expansion: Thomas Sherlock Proposes an American Bishop
James B. Bell

6. Jonathan Mayhew Fears a Bishop and Challenges the Purpose of the S.P.G.
James B. Bell

7. Pleas for an American Bishop in the 1760s: Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Secker and Thomas Bradbury Chandler
James B. Bell

8. A Radical Response to a Bishop: John Adams, Samuel Adams, and John Wilkes
James B. Bell

9. The Controversy over a Bishop in the Colonies outside New England
James B. Bell

Part II. A New Controversy: The Political Sentiments of the Clergymen

10. The Impact of the First Continental Congress and the Local Committees of Safety
James B. Bell

11. Critics of the Continental Congress and Common Sense: Jonathan Boucher and Charles Inglis
James B. Bell

12. A Challenge to Radical Politics: Samuel Seabury, Jr., and Thomas Bradbury Chandler
James B. Bell

13. Quiet and Militant Patriots
James B. Bell

14. William Knox Seeks to Establish an Ecclesiastical Imperial Policy for the American Church
James B. Bell

15. The State of the Clergy in 1775 and 1783
James B. Bell

16. The English Church, a Cause of the American Revolution
James B. Bell

Nyckelord: History, History of Britain and Ireland, History of the Americas, US History, Modern History, History of Early Modern Europe