Religious Identities in Britain, 1660û1832

by Gibson,William

• ISBN13: 9780754632092
• ISBN10: 0754632091
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-11-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The essays in this volume explore the important connections between religion, politics and identity in Britain during the 'long' eighteenth century. Asking broad questions about the identity and character of religion in Britain, the contributions touch such issues as the religious beliefs of the Jacobite rebels, the definitions of 'high' and 'low' Anglican churchmanship, and relations between religious dissenters and the established church. Through biographical analysis of a number of important individuals including Bishop Shipley, Richard Price, Thomas Secker, Charles Leslie, Sir George Pretyman-Tomline, John Henry Williams and Archdeacon Daubeny, the book makes an unambiguous and forceful statement about the centrality of religion to any proper understanding of British public life between the Restoration and the Reform Bill.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
1 Introduction
William Gibson and Robert G. Ingram	1	(8)
2 Roger Morrice and the History of Puritanism
Mark Goldie	9	(18)
3 Charles Leslie and the Political Implications of Theology
Robert Cornwall	27	(16)
4 Altitudinarian Equivocation: George Smalridge's Churchmanship
William Gibson	43	(18)
5 How Heterodox was Benjamin Hoadly?
Guglielmo Sanna	61	(20)
6 The Jacobite Failure to Bridge the Catholic/ Protestant Divide, 1717-1730
Jeffrey S. Chamberlain	81	(16)
7 William Warburton, Divine Action, and Enlightened Christianity
Robert G. Ingram	97	(22)
8 James Boswell and the Bi-Confessional State
James J. Caudle	119	(28)
9 'In the Church I will live and die': John Wesley, the Church of England, and Methodism
Jeremy Gregory	147	(32)
10 The Waning of Protestant Unity and Waxing of Anti-Catholicism? Archdeacon Daubeny and the Reconstruction of 'Anglican' Identity in the Later Georgian Church, c.1780-c.1830
Peter B. Nockles	179	(52)
11 Richard Price on Reason and Revolution
H.T. Dickinson	231	(24)
12 The 'most horrid and unnatural state of man': John Henry Williams and the French Wars, 1793-1802
Colin Haydon	255	(22)
13 Sir George Pretyman-Tomline: Ecclesiastical Politician and Theological Polemicist
G.M. Ditchfield	277	(22)
14 'Achitophel Firebrand' at St. Asaph: Dean Shipley and the Withering of Whiggism in the Church of England, 1775-1825
Nigel Aston	299	(22)
Index	321