ABSTRACT
This chapter contains a detailed analysis of the creation of an episcopal church in the United States after the destruction of the English Christendom form by the War of Independence. The developing political and church context is outlined and the work of William White is analysed, especially his book, The Case of the Episcopal Churches in the United States Considered. He attempted to create a people who could be a church. Samuel Seabury led a different movement in Connecticut seeking in the absence of a king a bishop who could then create a church. These different approaches are then brought together in a triumph of comprehension through plurality in the church in the first General Convention. The result was a church strongly national in its comprehension and ideal.
