The Church of England c.1689–c.1833
From Toleration to Tractarianism

This book brings together recent work on the Church of England in the 'long eighteenth century', demonstrating the importance of religion for a full understanding of English life in this period.

John Walsh (Edited by), Colin Haydon (Edited by), Stephen Taylor (Edited by)

9780521417327, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 7 October 1993

388 pages
23.5 x 15.9 x 2.5 cm, 0.756 kg

'… the scholarship throughout is of the highest quality …' The Times Higher Education Supplement

After decades of neglect there has been a resurgence of interest in the history of the Church of England in 'the long eighteenth century'. This volume of essays brings together the fruits of some of this research. Most of the essays have been written, not by traditional ecclesiastical historians, but by political, social and cultural historians, a fact which reflects the diversity of approaches to the study of the Church of England in the eighteenth century. As a whole, the volume demonstrates that religion and the Church can no longer be regarded as a discrete subject in the history of eighteenth-century England, but are central to a full understanding of its life and thought.

1. Introduction: The Church and Anglicanism in the long 'eighteenth century' John Walsh and Stephen Taylor
Part I. The Pastoral Work of the Church: 2. The eighteenth-century Reformation: the pastoral task of Anglican clergy after 1689 Jeremy Gregory
3. The clergy in the diocese of London in the eighteenth century Viviane Barrie-Curien
4. The reception of Richard Podmore: Anglicanism in Saddleworth 1700–1830 Mark Smith
Part II. Crisis and Reform: 5. The Church, the societies, and the moral revolution of 1688 John Spurr
6. John Locke, Jonas Proast, and religious toleration, 1688–1692 Mark Goldie
7. The origins and ideals of the SPCK 1699–1716 Craig Rose
8. Cultural patronage and the Anglican crisis: Bristol c.1689–1775 Jonathan Barry
9. Latitudinarianism at the parting of the ways: a suggestion Martin Fitzpatrick
10. Ecclesiastical policy under Lord North G. M. Ditchfield
11. The foundation of the Church Missionary Society: the Anglican missionary impulse Elizabeth Elbourne
12. A Hanoverian legacy?: diocesan reform in the Church of England c.1800–1833 R. Arthur Burns
Part III. Identities and Perceptions: 13. The eighteenth-century Church: a European view W. R. Ward
14. Portrait of a High-Church clerical dynasty in Georgian England: the Frewens and their world Jeffrey S. Chamberlain
15. 'Papist traitors and Presbyterian rogues': religious identities in eighteenth-century Lancashire Jan Albers
16. Church parties in the pre-Tractarian Church of England, 1750–1833: the 'Orthodox' - some problems of definition and identity Peter Nockles.

Subject Areas: History of religion [HRAX]