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Informationen zum Autor Robert G. Ingram is Professor of History at Ohio University Klappentext Reformation without end offers an entirely new interpretation of the English Reformation. No one in eighteenth-century England thought that they lived during 'the Enlightenment', and instead believed that they still faced the religious, intellectual and political problems unleashed by the Reformation. 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 of themselves as living in the midst of the very thing which they thought was the cause of 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 books 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 It references a wide range of manuscript sources, including annotated books and unpublished drafts, to show how eighteenth-century authors crafted and pitched their works. Reformation without end will be of interest to students and scholars of early modern English religious, intellectual and political history. Zusammenfassung Reformation without end conceives of eighteenth-century English history as a late chapter in the nation’s long Reformation. Contemporaries thought that the Reformation had caused two bloody seventeenth-century English revolutions. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface1 Why then are we still reforming?Part I: Purity of faith and worship against corruptions: Daniel Waterland2 Truth is always the same3 Philosophy-lectures or the Sermon on the Mount: Samuel Clarke and the Trinity4 Has not reason been abused as well as religion?: Matthew Tindal and the Scriptures5 The sacrament Socinianized: Benjamin Hoadly and the EucharistPart II: The history of the Church be fabulous: Conyers Middleton6 I know not what to make of the author7 Conversing...with the ancients: Rome and the Bible8 Treating me worse, than I deserved: heterodoxy and the politics of patronage9 Flood of resentment: assailing the primitive ChurchPart III: Neither Jacobite, nor republican, Presbyterian, nor papist: Zachary Grey10 Popery in its proper colours11 Factions, seditions and schismatical principles: Puritans and Dissenters12 The religion of the first ages: primitivism and the primitive Church13 None of us are born free: self-restraint and salvationPart IV: The abuses of fanaticism: William Warburton14 The incendiaries of sedition and confusion15 Neither a slave nor a tyrant: Church and state reimagined16 The triumph of Christ over Julian: prodigies, miracles and providence17 A due degree of zeal: enthusiasm and MethodismConclusionIndex...
