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Author:   Ashley Walsh (Author)
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   Boydell & Brewer
Weight:   0.001kg
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9781837651498

ISBN 10:   1837651493
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   14 May 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Hanoverian Civil Religion and its Intellectual Resources 1. Building Athens from Jerusalem: Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury 2. The Politics of Priestcraft: John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon 3. The Church-State Alliance: Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke, and William Warburton 4. The Civil Faith of Common Sense: David Hume 5. The Legacy of Ancient Rome: Edward Gibbon and Conyers Middleton 6. Subscription, Reform, and Dissent: Civil Religion and Enlightened Divinity during the Late Eighteenth Century Conclusion: Hanoverian Civil Religion and its Aftermath Bibliography

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[This] an excellent book and will become essential reading for all scholars of the Enlightenment and eighteenth-century religion. * JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, LITERATURE AND CULTURE * [Walsh's] research has opened up a new angle on the age-old question of the relationship between religion and Enlightenment and deserves to be read widely. * THE JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY * This impressive new book...succeeds in covering broad ground while maintaining clarity and focus, with complex ecclesiological arguments swiftly explained in clear and often entertaining prose * JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY * Well-researched and clearly written...this book has deftly unearthed a vein of opinion in the eighteenth century which gives further meaning to the increasingly prevalent phrase, the English Enlightenment. * JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY * Professor Walsh has written an important book. His defense of Hanoverian civil religion is original, thoughtful, and provocative in the best sense of the term. Historians, philosophers, and political theorists will be forced to rethink standard interpretations of canonical thinkers, reexamine the relationship between elite intellectuals and political society, and constantly remind themselves that God was not dead in the eighteenth-century English Enlightenment. * Eighteenth-Century Studies * Walsh's outstanding tour of the creation of English civil religion, and a navigation of tradition and change, is recommended to anyone interested in the changes that confronted the Church of England in the eighteenth century. * Anglican and Episcopal History *

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ASHLEY WALSH is Lecturer in Early Modern History at Cardiff University.

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