The Evangelical Education Society (EES) has a long history as a strong and representative voice for promoting the liberal strain of rational religion that dominated preaching, worship, and clerical leadership in the Episcopal Church throughout its first century and into the first half of the twentieth century. EES’s prominence owed much to the postbellum competition between muscular evangelical churchmanship and the Oxford inspired Anglo-Catholic liturgical formulations, which acquired a strong foothold in the Church after 1885. The EES archive captures activities from 1862 to 1998 with particular strength in organization’s minutes, subscriptions and grants, membership records for certain periods, and publications. Early records also include those of related evangelical clergy associations in Philadelphia that merged with EES: the Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge (PESPEK) and the Episcopal Evangelical Fellowship (EEF).
