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External rhetoric shaped the course of the King’s church during the two decades before the outbreak of the American Revolution. It was a controversy launched by prominent Boston Congregational parsons who were critical of the manner in which the church was established in New England. It was a conflict that shaped the agendas of clergy conventions, the number of native colonists from the region who entered the Anglican ministry, and the number of new congregations formed in New England. In hindsight the controversy created a stalemate in the efforts to advance the King’s church in the region.
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© 2004 James B. Bell
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Bell, J.B. (2004). New England Critics of Imperial Church Policy. In: The Imperial Origins of the King’s Church in Early America, 1607–1783. Studies in Modern History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230005587_11
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