The Obedience of Faith: Seven Sermons Delivered on His Visitations to the Churches in His Diocese, During 1848-9
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The Apostles Doctrine and Fellowship. Five Sermons Preached in the Principal Churches of His Diocese, During His Spring Visitation, 1844
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The Trials of a Mind in Its Progress to Catholicism: A Letter to His Old Friends
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Levi Silliman Ives was an American theologian and Episcopalian bishop. He founded the Brotherhood of the Holy Cross at Valle Crucis, North Carolina, which featured High-church views.
Background
Levi Silliman was born on September 16, 1797 in Meriden, Connecticut, United States, a son of Levi and Fanny Silliman Ives. The Ives family soon left the ancestral farm for Turin, New York, in the Black River country where a number of Meriden folk had settled.
Education
Young Levi was trained in the local school and in Lowville Academy until he enlisted in the War of 1812. In 1816 he registered at Hamilton College with the view of becoming a Presbyterian minister, but illness prevented his graduation. In 1819 he affiliated with the Protestant Episcopal Church and studied theology under Bishop J. H. Hobart.
Career
Ordered a deacon by Bishop Hobart, August 14, 1822, Ives was ordained priest by Bishop William White in Trinity Church, Philadelphia, June 14, 1823, and assigned to St. James' Church, Batavia, New York. His advance was rapid: he was successively rector of Trinity Church (Southwark), Philadelphia; assistant minister in Trinity Church, New York; rector of St. James' Church, Lancaster; and finally the bishop of North Carolina. He was consecrated bishop in 1831 at Trinity Church, Philadelphia, by Bishop White who was assisted by the Bishops H. U. and B. T. Onderdonk. In his Southern diocese he infused new life into the church.
He also found time to publish his New Manual of Devotions, Humility a Ministerial Qualification (1840), The Apostle's Doctrine and Fellowship (1844), and The Obedience of Faith (1849).
In 1848, when he was arraigned before a convention of the Episcopalian Church for heterodox practices, his explanations were accepted, though the Brotherhood was dissolved. But apparently the bishop's tractarian doubts were not silenced, for while on leave of absence, he journeyed to Rome and there came to a decision which "produced a great sensation. " He resigned his see, December 22, 1852, made his submission to Pope Pius IX on Christmas day, and brought his wife into the Catholic Church. Thereupon he was officially deposed.
Remaining abroad two years, he delayed his passage a week to return with the Hugh Gallagher and thus missed death on the ill-fated Arctic which sank with his baggage. In his Trials of a Mind in its Progress to Catholicism: a Letter to his Old Friends (1853), Ives explained his reason for abandoning his position in the Protestant Episcopal Church and for seeking admission, as a layman, into the Catholic Church, with no prospect but "peace of conscience" and "salvation".
With a wife and no resources, he was indeed without prospects and became a burden on the Catholic bishops who were urged by Rome to look after his material welfare until he found his niche as an instructor in English in St. John's College, Fordham, New York, and in St. Joseph's Seminary, and as a lecturer at the convents of the Sacred Heart and Sisters of Charity. He died in 1867.
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Views
The slavery question was distressing to him. Despite his concern about negro education and his publication of a catechism for slaves, which did not please his fold, he was taken to task for championing slavery in an address before an Episcopalian convention in which he answered the reproof administered to the American church by the lord bishop of Oxford.
Membership
Ives founded the Brotherhood of the Holy Cross at Valle Crucis, North Carolina, which featured High-church views.
Connections
Ives married Rebecca, daughter of Bishop J. H. Hobart in 1822.