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.
Summary:
"Reformation without end radically 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 that the eighteenth-century English debated the causes and consequences of those seventeenth-century revolutions and the thing which they thought had caused them, the Reformation. Reformation without end draws on a wide array of manuscript sources to show how authors crafted and pitched their works."-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain
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