{"id":322,"date":"2009-04-15T17:59:57","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T22:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joeljmiller.com\/?p=322"},"modified":"2009-04-15T17:59:57","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T22:59:57","slug":"bishop-takes-rook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joeljmiller\/2009\/04\/bishop-takes-rook\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop takes rook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Jonathan Mayhew, Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>One of the most fascinating figures I\u2019ve discovered while researching about the life of Paul Revere is Jonathan Mayhew. He was the pastor at West Church in Boston. He is often cited as the first Unitarian, and in his letters you can read him complaining about, among other things, the average Bostonian\u2019s \u201czeal for Athanasian and Calvinistic Orthodoxy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paul Revere was more than a decade his junior, but they became friends in Revere\u2019s later teens. Mayhew married the daughter of Revere\u2019s landlord. Paul\u2019s family was mostly Puritan. His dad was a Huguenot refugee (hence his French surname), and Dad took his doctrine pretty seriously\u2014certainly Trinitarian, definitely Calvinist. In fact when Revere was caught sneaking sermons at Mayhew\u2019s church, Dad gave Paul a whipping to discourage his consumption of heretical preaching. <\/p>\n

Mayhew was also an ardent and celebrated defender of liberty in the colonies. He opposed the Stamp Act and resisted imposition of anything that smacked of British officialdom\u2014including Anglican bishops. He was a Congregationalist and fought a very pitched public battle against the establishment of the episcopate in America.<\/p>\n

So against that backdrop, read the following from Charles Akers\u2019 bio of Mayhew (my comments in brackets). It turns out that Mayhew\u2019s grandson <\/p>\n

entered the Anglican priesthood in 1817 [Mayhew died in 1766] and returned briefly to Boston in 1834 as rector of Trinity Episcopal Church [in granddad\u2019s old stomping grounds]. With all his grandfather\u2019s temerity [he was famously strident] the grandson proclaimed that \u201cthere cannot be a church without a bishop.\u201d By the time of his death in 1854, Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, perhaps America\u2019s most distinguished Episcopalian, had become Bishop of New York.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And I bet he recited the Athanasian Creed as often as his grandfather complained about it.<\/p>\n

You just never know how things are going to shake out, do you?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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