Noble Powell and the Episcopal Establishment in the Twentieth Century

Hein skillfully provides regional religious and historical contexts for Powells life and furnishes penetrating insights into the man and the entire Episcopal establishment of this era. [The author] resourcefully combines secondary scholarship personal conversations and communications and conventional primary documents to capture Powells personality career and relationships.... Anyone with a serious interest in American religious history will find this compelling biography to be both informative and thought provoking. -- Samuel C. Shepherd Jr. Journal of Southern History Heins wide knowledge of the sociocultural forces at work in the mid-twentieth century and especially the forces that generated the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s have enabled him to illuminate an entire period of Episcopal Church history through the life and work of one man. . . . Heins gracious style judicious insights and especially his striking ability to penetrate the subtleties of southern religion in brief and trenchant observations make this book a pleasure to read. -- Susan J. White Anglican and Episcopal History [A] painstaking thoughtful biography. . . . To this story Hein ... brings balance sensitivity and exhaustive research. As the last bishop of the old church Noble Powell will be remembered longer than many of his predecessors. -- James Bready Baltimore Sun [This] biography . . . is meticulously researched full of primary source material and rich documentation. [It] is fun to read for anyone with an interest in American Protestant history. -- David E. Sumner Journal of American History David Hein is Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Hood College (Frederick Maryland). His latest book is Geoffrey Fisher: Archbishop of Canterbury 1945-1961 (Pickwick Publications).