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It discusses how English and Anglican heritage shaped Episcopal impulses in the United States, framing the church as a durable institution for status and social cohesion. 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CHRIST:\n\nedited by  \n# Moral Theology for Clergy and LaityON HUMAN NATURE\n\nHugh Spite  \n-…  \nOPunch36.58\"Not only does he know what he's going to be—he'swritten his autobiography in advance.\"1979 MAY-Ⅱ  \n\n| Kit and Frederica Konolige  \u003Cbr>THE POWER  \u003Cbr>OF THEIR GLORY  \u003Cbr>America's Ruling Class:  \u003Cbr>The Episcopalians  \u003Cbr>Wyden,$12.95   | New York City's fashionable Grace Church was   \u003Cbr>a strand of upper crust or stale crust  \u003Cbr>people who have inherited privilege in a  \u003Cbr>society that bulges in its.broad middle  \u003Cbr>class but still has a sort of establish-  \u003Cbr>ment.Now it happens that in their  \u003Cbr>genes or heritage is the English_and  \u003Cbr>Anglican and almost accidentally Epis-  \u003Cbr>copal churchly impulse.Before Amer-  \u003Cbr>ica was founded,promoters were an-  \u003Cbr>notating their books with lines like  \u003Cbr>these:\"We of England are the saved  \u003Cbr>people.”Or:“God is so much Eng-   | the scene of william Randolph Hearst's wedding.  \u003Cbr>lish.”The promoted gentlefolk who  \u003Cbr>started arriving in Virginia in 1607,  \u003Cbr>because they were firstest with the most-  \u003Cbr>est,soon learned how to hang on to  \u003Cbr>status.If being members of a church  \u003Cbr>helped define them,let it.Every society  \u003Cbr>has such a caste,be it the old class of  \u003Cbr>aristocracy or the new class of bureau-  \u003Cbr>cratic Marxist societies on the left.  \u003Cbr>America was generally fortunate in its  \u003Cbr>choice of an elite,and they held on to a  \u003Cbr>church that served them well.   |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Reviewed by MARTIN E.MARTY,  \u003Cbr>who,despite his Episcocratic title—the  \u003Cbr>Fairfax M.Cone Distinguished Service  \u003Cbr>Professorat the University of Chicago一  \u003Cbr>is of Swiss peasant stock and writes for  \u003Cbr>a poor journal named The Christian  \u003Cbr>Century.  \u003Cbr>THIS is a dumb book about the smart  \u003Cbr>set.It is dumb because it is a miscon-  \u003Cbr>ceived and mumbling book about mem-  \u003Cbr>bers of the church of the inarticulate  \u003Cbr>construction,the Episcopal faith.This  \u003Cbr>set is not jet,nor are its people beauti-  \u003Cbr>ful,as in Beautiful People,since those  \u003Cbr>celebrity enclaves are made up_of  \u003Cbr>people who,having it,flaunt it.The  \u003Cbr>folks whom the Konoliges less than re-  \u003Cbr>lentlessly pursue are gifted at not  \u003Cbr>flaunting it.They are of old learning,  \u003Cbr>old wealth,old status.They can and do  \u003Cbr>relax.So little do they strain that their  \u003Cbr>thinkings and workings are quite elu-  \u003Cbr>sive,far too vague for plodders to track.  \u003Cbr>The subject is a worthy one.There is   |  |  |\n\n\n| IF you have ever suffered through a  \u003Cbr>rendition of“The Harp That Once  \u003Cbr>Through Tara's Halls”or,even worse,  \u003Cbr>\"Believe Me If All Those Endearing  \u003Cbr>Young Charms,\"you may not care to  \u003Cbr>learn that their creator,Irish poet and  \u003Cbr>lyricist Thomas Moore,was born 200  \u003Cbr>years ago,May 28th.We are told that  \u003Cbr>his singing was \"ineffably sweet and  \u003Cbr>touching,\"that \"he was worshipped by  \u003Cbr>women and was a trifle vain,\"and that  \u003Cbr>\"he was somewhat high-strung and on  \u003Cbr>one occasion burst into a fit of hyster-  \u003Cbr>ics in the middle of a song.\"As a poet  \u003Cbr>he wasn't much and his crime of burn-  \u003Cbr>ing Byron's memoirs which had been  \u003Cbr>entrusted to him is not easily forgiven.  \u003Cbr>And that may well be more than you  \u003Cbr>wanted to know about Thomas Moore.  \u003Cbr>Speaking of anniversaries,Ellery  \u003Cbr>Queen is celebrating 50 years of crime  \u003Cbr>solving.As you know,Ellery Queen is a   | STOP  \u003Cbr>PISHING!  \u003Cbr>BY DAN HERR  \u003Cbr>pseudonym for two writers,Frederick  \u003Cbr>Dannay and Manfred Lee.The latter  \u003Cbr>died eight years ago but Mr.Dannay,at  \u003Cbr>73,continues the Queen saga.He ex-  \u003Cbr>plains:“You shouldn't retire because  \u003Cbr>you'll either die or fade on the vine.I  \u003Cbr>intend to keep on going.\"...Let us be  \u003Cbr>grateful to English journalist Patrick   | O'Donovan for remembering these wise  \u003Cbr>words from ","cbCaikqnifYnU7vx","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikqnifYnU7vx","pdf",3605739,"English","# THE POWER OF THEIR GLORY: America’s Ruling Class - The Episcopalians\n## Walker Percy: An American Search\n## Free and Faithful in Christ\n## Moral Theology for Clergy and Laity\n## On Human Nature","[{\"question\":\"How does the text explain the Episcopal Church’s role in American elite identity?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that English and Anglican heritage translated into an Episcopal “churchly impulse,” helping an upper-status group define itself and maintain status over time.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the review emphasize about the Konoliges’ approach and subject matter?\",\"answer\":\"It criticizes 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