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From Revivalism to Anti-Revivalism to Whig Politics: The Strange Career of Calvin Colton

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2001

JAMES D. BRATT
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Abstract

Calvin Colton (1789–1857) was an important publicist for both evangelical revivalism and the Whig party in antebellum America. Contrary to the standard historical interpretations, however, Colton did not move smoothly from the one to the other but took up political advocacy only after denouncing Yankee revivalism and its attendant social advocacy as threats to Church and State alike. At the same time his turn to episcopacy went together with a pronounced anglophobia. An analysis of Colton's rhetoric and career path reveals a consistent pattern beneath his unexpected changes and some under-explored dimensions of American religion before the Civil War.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 52 , Issue 1 , January 2001 , pp. 63 - 82
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

This paper was originally presented to a meeting of the American Society of Church History at Wheaton, Illinois, on 12 April 1996. The author wishes to thank Margaret Bendroth, Henry Bowdoin, Richard Carwardine, Paul Kemeny, Mark Noll, John F. Wilson and the anonymous reviewer for this JOURNAL for their instructive comments.