The American Revolution and Righteous Community: Selected Sermons of Bishop Robert Smith. Edited by Charles Wilbanks. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. xxiv, 280. $49.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-665-1.)
Charles Wilbanks provides a valuable edition of sermons by the prominent Anglican priest Robert Smith, who pastored St. Philip's Church of Charleston, South Carolina, during the American Revolution. Smith later became the first bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina. While many northern Anglican priests leaned toward Loyalism, Smith joined a majority of his fellow South Carolina priests in supporting the Patriot cause. Others may have simply cheered the ...