Reformation without end : religion, politics and the past in post-revolutionary England / Robert G. Ingram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ingram, Robert G., author.

Series:

Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain.

Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Waterland, Daniel, 1683-1740.

Waterland, Daniel.

Middleton, Conyers, 1683-1750.

Middleton, Conyers.

Grey, Zachary, 1688-1766.

Grey, Zachary.

Warburton, William, 1698-1779.

Warburton, William.

Religion and politics--England--History--18th century.

Religion and politics.

Great Britain--Church history--18th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 362 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

[Paperback edition].

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Reformation without end reinterprets the English Reformation. No one in eighteenth-century England thought that they lived during 'the Enlightenment'. Instead, they thought that they still faced the religious, intellectual and political problems unleashed by the Reformation, which began in the sixteenth century. They faced those problems, though, in the aftermath of two bloody seventeenth-century political and religious revolutions.This book is about the ways the eighteenth-century English debated the causes and consequences of those seventeenth-century revolutions. Those living in post-revolutionary England conceived themselves as living in the midst of the very thing which they thought had caused the revolutions: the Reformation. The reasons for and the legacy of the Reformation remained hotly debated in post-revolutionary England because the religious and political issues it had generated remained unresolved and that irresolution threatened more civil unrest. For this reason, most that got published during the eighteenth century concerned religion. This book looks closely at the careers of four of the eighteenth century's most important polemical divines, Daniel Waterland, Conyers Middleton, Zachary Grey and William Warburton. It relies on a wide range of manuscript sources, including annotated books and unpublished drafts, to show how eighteenth-century authors crafted and pitched their works.

Contents:

Why then are we still reforming?

Truth is always the same

Philosophy-lectures or the Sermon on the Mount: Samuel Clarke and the trinity

Has not reason been abused as well as religion? Matthew Tindal and the scriptures

The sacrament Socinianized: Benjamin Hoadly and the Eucharist

I know not what to make of the author

Conversing ... with the ancients: Rome and the Bible

Treating me worse, than I deserved: heterodoxy and the politics of patronage

Flood of resentment: assailing the primitive church

Popery in its proper colours

Factions, seditions and schismatical principles: Puritans and Dissenters

The religion of the first ages: primitivism and the primitive Church

None of us are born free: self-restraint and salvation

The incendiaries of sedition and confusion

Neither a slave nor a tyrant: church and state reimagined

The triumph of Christ over Julian: prodigies, miracles and providence

A due degree of zeal: enthusiasm and Methodism.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jul 2026).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781526126962

1526126966

9781526136244

1526136244

9781526126955

1526126958

OCLC:

1240715578