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Zusatztext As expected in a definitive Oxford University Press edition of the work of an important intellectual, this volume of Church-of-Englandism displays a high standard of scholarship. Informationen zum Autor James E. Crimmins is Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at Huron University College, and an Adjunct Research Professor in Political Science at The University of Western Ontario. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Wales, where he was born and raised, and his PhD in Political Theory from The University of Western Ontario. He has been the recipient of a Canada Council (SSHRC) post-doctoral fellowship and four other major SSHRC research grants. He served as Dean of Arts and Social Science at Huron, 1994-99. He has published extensively on Bentham and utilitarianism and other aspects of 18th and 19th century political thought. Klappentext Church-of-Englandism and its Catechism Examined was part of Bentham's sustained attack on English political, legal, and ecclesiastical establishments. This authoritative version is accompanied by an editorial introduction, comprehensive annotation, collations of several extracts published during Bentham's lifetime, and subject and name indexes. Zusammenfassung Church-of-Englandism and its Catechism Examined, printed in 1817 and published in 1818, was part of Bentham's sustained attack on English political, legal, and ecclesiastical establishments. Bentham argues that the purpose of the Church's system of education, in particular the schools sponsored by the Church-dominated National Society for the Education of the Poor, was to instil habits of insincerity into the population at large, and thereby protect the abuses which were profitable both to the clergy and the ruling classes in general. Bentham recommends the 'euthanasia' of the Church, and argues that government sponsored proposals were in fact intended to propagate the system of abuse rather than reform it. An appendix based on original manuscripts, which deals with the relationship between Church and state, is published here for the first time. This authoritative version of the text is accompanied by an editorial introduction, comprehensive annotation, collations of several extracts published during Bentham's lifetime, and subject and name indexes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I The Catechism-a bad Substitute to the Bible-is substituted to it 1: Church of England Catechism-this perhaps the First Censorial Commentary ever applied to it 2: On Religion in a Christian Free-School, the Bible the only fit Lesson-Book 3: No substitute to the Bible should be there taught-the Catechism is made a Substitute to it 4: Badness of this Substitute in every respect: I. As to Faithfulness-No Tests of it 5: II. Badness in respect of Matter 6: III. Badness in respect of Form 7: Of the Badness of this Formulary, in respect of Matter, the Framers of it were conscious 8: Of the Badness of this Formulary, in respect of Faithfulness, Matter, and Form, the Imposers of it on the Schools are conscious 9: The Religion thus taught by the Rulers of the Church of England, is not the Religion of Jesus Part II Exclusionary system of Instruction-its Establishment-its bad Tendencies Part III Exclusionary System-Grounds for the Hope that the Approbation of it is not general Part IV National Society-Grounds for regarding the Exclusionary Acts as Spurious, and its Reports as Purposely deceptious 1: Cause and Ground of Suspicion as to Authenticity 2: Marks of Authenticity, proper and usual, in Reports of Proceedings of Public Bodies 3: Positions and Plan of Proof-Ends pursued by the Institution-Means employed 4: I. Proofs of the System of Exclusion 5: II. Proofs of the System of Imposition. General Committee-Meetings none 6: Proofs of the System of Imposition continued-II. Sub-Committees a...
