Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England: Volume 3, Accommodations

A massive and authoritative contribution to the intellectual and cultural history of modern England.

Maurice Cowling (Author)

9780521611893, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 11 November 2004

792 pages
23.5 x 15.6 x 4 cm, 1.083 kg

'… the trilogy will be compulsory, and perhaps even compulsive, reading for anyone interested in the place occupied by Christianity as a 'public doctrine' in England over the last century and a half.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History

The third and concluding volume of Maurice Cowling's magisterial sequence examines three related strands of English thought - latitudinarianism, the Christian thought which has assumed that latitudinarianism gives away too much, and the post-Christian thought which has assumed that Christianity is irrelevant or anachronistic. As in previous volumes, Maurice Cowling conducts his argument through a series of encounters with individual thinkers, including Burke, Disraeli, the Arnolds, Tennyson and Tawney in the first half, and Darwin, Keynes, Orwell, Leavis and Berlin in the second. Central to the whole is Mr Cowling's contention that the modern mind cannot escape from religion. Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England represents a massive contribution to the intellectual and cultural history of modern England, of interest to historians, literary and cultural critics, theologians, philosophers, economists, as well as to that broader reading public with a serious interest in the making of the English mental landscape.

Introduction
Part V. The Christian Intellect and Modern Thought in Modern England: 1. The reanimation of protestantism I: Carlyle, Froude and Kingsley
2. Christianity and literature I: Burke and Disraeli
3. The reanimation of protestantism II: Thomas Arnold, Bunsen, Jowett, Stanley, Lyall and Max Muller
4. The enlargement of Christianity: Matthew Arnold, Seeley, Sidgwick and Wicksteed
5. Christianity and literature II: Dickens, Tennyson, Browning, Pater and Wilde
6. Christianity and modern knowledge I: Stirling, Wallace, Caird and Green
7. Whiggism, liberalism and Christianity I: Macaulay, Lecky, Bryce and Fisher
8. Whiggism, liberalism and Christianity II: Fitzjames Stephen, Acton, Maine, Inge, Henson and Smuts
9. Christianity and modern knowledge II: Whewell, Stubbs and Cunningham
10. Christianity in an unfriendly world I: Shaftesbury, Maurice, Westcott, Tawney and Temple
11. Christianity in an unfriendly world II: Forsyth, Masterman, Gore, Figgis and Lewis
12. Christianity in an unfriendly world III: Underhill, Eddington, Needham, Zaehner and Jung
13. Christianity in an unfriendly world IV: Balfour, Ashley and Joseph Chamberlain
14. Christianity in an unfriendly world V: Milbank and Macintyre
Part VI. The Post-Christian Consensus: 15. Modern knowledge and the post-Christian consensus I: Darwin, Dawkins, Galton and Pearson
16. Modern knowledge and the post-Christian consensus II: Freud, J. B. S. Haldane, Huxley and Popper
17. Modern knowledge and the post-Christian consensus III: F. H. Bradley, Bosanquet, R. B. Haldane, A. C. Bradley, Elgar, Parry and Hadow
18. Modern knowledge and the post-Christian consensus IV: Maitland, Hobhouse, Keynes and Hayek
19. English socialism as English religion: The Webbs, Macdonald, Laski, Orwell and Crossman
20. Literature and the post-Christian consensus: Wordsworth, Hardy, Kipling and Forster
21. Modern knowledge and the post-Christian consensus V: Richards and Leavis
22. Modern knowledge and the post-Christian consensus VI: Williams, Eagleton, Kenny, Skinner and Scruton
23. Judaism and the post-Christian consensus: Namier, Berlin, Koestler and Steiner
24. Complication and dilapidation
Conclusion: the author and the argument
Index.

Subject Areas: Economics [KC], Political ideologies [JPF], Cultural studies [JFC], Christian theology [HRCM], Philosophy [HP], History: theory & methods [HBA], Literature: history & criticism [DS]