Reformation Without End Hardcover

Robert Ingram

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 It references a wide range of manuscript sources, including annotated books and unpublished drafts, to show how eighteenth-century authors crafted and pitched their works.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.

9781526126948

English

Manchester University Press

27-Mar-18

Robert G. Ingram is Professor of History at Ohio University -- .