The Hicksite Separation: a Sociological Analysis of Religious Schism in Early Nineteenth Century America. By Robert W. Doherty. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1967. vi + 95 pp., 62 pp. tables & notes. $7.50.

1969 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-127
Author(s):  
Hugh Barbour
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
Rutgers University ◽  
Religious Schism

The Problem of Christian Unity in Early Nineteenth-Century America

1963 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lefferts A. Loetscher
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
Social Challenge ◽  
Atlantic Community ◽  
Christian Unity ◽  
Aggressive Attack

American Protestants in the early nineteenth century faced intellectual and social challenge which made conspicuous the weakness of their own divided condition. The American Revolution—which was part of a larger upheaval in the Atlantic Community—had spread Enlightenment ideas, with their aggressive attack on orthodoxy. Quite typical was the lament of a convention of Massachusetts Congregational ministers in 1799 over “the present decay of Christian morals and piety, and the awful prevalence of speculative and practical infidelity.” Well before the middle eighteen-thirties the tide of deism had ebbed, but some, like the editors of the new Christian Review, were still building sea walls against it.

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