The Right Rev James Hervey Otey Dd Ll D Late Bishop Of Tennessee

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Papers concerning Otey's election as Bishop, 1833, fitness for the office, and affairs of the Diocese of Tennessee. Subjects include his interest in education, especially Columbia Female Institute, Ravenscroft College, and the University of the South; the need for greater clerical and lay discipline; the authority of bishops and their duty to suppress strange doctrines; proposals for improving organization of foreign and domestic missions; Otey's disapproval of the Protestant Episcopal Missionary Association for the West; the Church of England; ritualism; dealings with other bishops, especially George Upfold and Alexander V. Griswold; and personal matters. The collection also contains to tributes to Bishop Otey.

In The Root of All Evil Kenneth Moore Startup looks to the sermons and writings of Protestant clergy to better understand the driving forces behind the antebellum southern economy. During this period of unprecedented American expansion, he finds, clerics of all denominations on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line displayed a remarkable unanimity in their condemnation of mammonism--the open pursuit of wealth, conspicuous consumption, lack of charity, and contempt of honest labor. This trend, the clergy argued, was diverting both North and South from their best interests and would ultimately destroy the nation. The Root of All Evil represents a challenge to any notion of an economically disinterested southern mind and culture by revealing an Old South in line ideologically with the mainstream of nineteenth-century capitalism, and also provides useful insights into southern religious life.

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