Privilege and Prophecy: Social Activism in the Post‐War Episcopal Church.

I Privilege and Prophecy i is a masterly account of what the author calls the defining feature of the domestic agenda of the Episcopal Church in the United States in America (ECUSA) from 1945 to 1979: a "prophetic" mission to challenge unjust and dehumanising social structures. As a result, they helped transform ECUSA from a socially prominent church unified by a shared sense of purpose into a socially marginalised church, rent by internal rivalries and struggling with a muddled identity. Dr. Tobin has probably chosen ECUSA in large part because he knows it well; he is an expat American who serves as a priest in the Church of England, from which ECUSA is descended. [Extracted from the article]