Contesting the English Polity, 1660-1688 - Religion, Politics, and Ideas

What did people in Restoration England think the correct relationship between church and state should be? And how did this thinking evolve?

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Theory of Royal Sovereignty
2. The Theory of Religious Intolerance
3. The Reception of Thomas Hobbes
4. Danby, the Bishops, and the Whigs
5. Priestcraft and the Birth of Whiggism
6. Toleration and the Godly Prince
7. Toleration and the Huguenots
8. Andrew Marvell's Adversaries
9. Annual Parliaments and Aristocratic Whiggism
10. William Lawrence and the Case for King Monmouth
11. Sir Peter Pett, Sceptical Toryism, and the Science of Toleration
12. The Political Thought of the Anglican Revolution
13. John Locke and Anglican Royalism
Index

About the author

Mark Goldie is Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College. He has edited or authored 12 books and published more than 60 essays on British political, religious, and intellectual history in the period 1650-1800. Two of his books are published by Boydell and Brewer: The Entring Book of Roger Morrice and Roger Morrice and the Puritan Whigs.

Summary

What did people in Restoration England think the correct relationship between church and state should be? And how did this thinking evolve?

Product details

• Authors: Mark Goldie, Professor Mark Goldie
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781783277360
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-736-0
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History; Studies in Early Modern Cultur
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education