Religion in Enlightenment England
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Religion in Enlightenment England

An Anthology of Primary Sources

  1. 420 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Religion in Enlightenment England

An Anthology of Primary Sources

About this book

Religion in Enlightenment England introduces its readers to a rich array of BritishĀ Christian texts published between 1660 and 1750. The anthology documents the arc of Christian writings from the reestablishment of the Church of England to the rise of the Methodist movement in the middle of the eighteenth century. The Enlightenment era witnessed the explosion ofĀ mass print culture and the unprecedented expansion of literacy across society. These changes transformed many inherited Christian genres--such as the sermon and the devotional manual--while also generating new ones, from the modern church hymn to spiritual autobiography.

The authors included in this collection confronted the rise of modern science and forged new rules of modern toleration.Ā Their writing reveals the unprecedented spiritual authority assumed by women and helps explain how emotion moved to the center of religious experience. Religion in Enlightenment England captures the literary energy and excitement unleashed by the Enlightenment itself: authorsĀ engageĀ one another in spirited dialogue that pits reason against revelation, religious conformity against dissent, innovation against tradition, andĀ Freethinking against natural religion.

An indispensable asset for any scholar's library, the anthology includes texts by William Law, John Bunyan, Elizabeth Singer Rowe, John and Charles Wesley, Richard Baxter, John Toland, Mary Astell, Daniel Defoe, John Norris, Margaret Fell Fox, Isaac Watts, Thomas Traherne, John Tillotson, William Penn, and Anne Conway.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page, Title Page, Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Part I. Anglican Apologetics
  7. John Tillotson
  8. Mary Astell
  9. William Law
  10. Part II: Dissenting Voices
  11. Margaret Fell
  12. Richard Baxter
  13. John Bunyan
  14. William Penn
  15. Daniel Defoe
  16. Isaac Watts
  17. Part III. The Methodist Movement
  18. John Wesley
  19. George Whitefield
  20. Part IV. Freethinking
  21. Anthony Collins
  22. John Toland
  23. Part V. Nature
  24. John Ray
  25. Richard Blackmore
  26. Part VI. Visions
  27. Thomas Traherne
  28. Anne Conway
  29. Jane Lead
  30. Part VII. Miracle
  31. Anonymous
  32. John Toland
  33. Samuel Clarke
  34. David Hartley
  35. Part VIII. Spirits
  36. Joseph Glanvill
  37. Francis Hutchinson
  38. Daniel Defoe
  39. Part IX. Devotion
  40. John Norris
  41. William Law
  42. Elizabeth Singer Rowe
  43. Part X. The Hymn
  44. Nicholas Brady and Nahum Tate
  45. Richard Baxter
  46. Thomas Ken
  47. John Mason
  48. Benjamin Keach
  49. Isaac Watts
  50. Charles Wesley
  51. Part XI. Spiritual Autobiography
  52. John Bunyan
  53. Anne Dutton