TY - JOUR
AU - Fogarty, Robert S.
AB - Book Reviews 1401 Christ unwittingly evolved from a sect to a pa­ was formed in the aftermath of the Hicksite triotic and culture-affirming denomination. split of the 1820s and the emergence of a com­ Given his thesis that the denominational plex of evangelical reforms in the 1830s; these culture of the Churches of Christ is thoroughly Universal Reformers were skeptical about reli­ shaped by the founders' biblical primitivism, gious orthodoxy, "uncomfortable with the Mar­ Hughes focuses on intellectual history. He builds ket Revolution," and insistent on the "primacy his case around crisp biographic portraits of of individual conscience and inward leanings." leaders whose careers exemplify the church's After the 1842 yearly meeting of the Green central convictions. As an exercise in denom­ Plain Indiana Quakers, some Hicksiteswho were inational history, Reviving the Ancient Faith unhappy with the orthodox Quakers' proslavery attitudes, their refusal to address the "women would be strengthened by attention to two is­ sues. First, Hughes assumesthat theology shapes question;' and their own isolation within the religious practice, and he therefore gives scant Quaker polity came together with evangelicals consideration to the characteristic piety of the from the East who had been part of the famous Churches 
TI - God's Government Begun: The Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform, 1842–1846. By Thomas D. Hamm. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. xxviii, 312 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-253-32903-5.)
JO - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/2952955
DA - 1997-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/god-s-government-begun-the-society-for-universal-inquiry-and-reform-f0rbGTBZ0e
SP - 1401
EP - 1402
VL - 83
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -