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Book SynopsisAnglican-Episcopal Theology and History covers aspects of the Anglican-Episcopal tradition from the Reformation to the present, in both its historical and theological forms, including historical theology. The volumes in the series comprise monographs, themed collected studies and rigorously revised doctoral dissertations. All proposed works will be peer-reviewed. Publications are in paperback and electronic format.
Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: 1680–1830 1 The Changing Interpretation of English Religion, 1680–1750 1 Introduction: The Shape of the First Two Chapters 2 J. C. D. Clark and the Rethinking of English Politics after 1688 3 Religion in English Society after 1688 4 Religion in the Early Enlightenment 5 Conclusion 2 Theology and the English Enlightenment, 1660–1720 1 The End of the Reformation in Europe, and the Challenge to Christian Orthodoxy 2 Revelation and Scripture in the Early Enlightenment 3 Reason in the Early Enlightenment 4 Thomas Hobbes 5 John Locke and Empiricism 6 The End of the Seventeenth Century in England: Cambridge Platonism and the Latitudinarians 7 Shaftesbury and the Moral Sense School 8 The Challenge of Shaftesbury to Orthodox Christianity 3 Joseph Butler’s Rolls Sermons 1 Butler’s Early Life and Education 2 Butler and Samuel Clarke 3 Butler’s Later Life, 1721–1752 4 Butler’s Refutation of Hobbes 5 Butler on Shaftesbury and Hutcheson 6 Butler’s Critique of Locke: Religious Affections 7 Butler’s Critique of Locke: Personal Identity 8 Butler on ‘Superior Principles’ 9 Butler on Benevolence 10 Butler on Self-Love 11 Butler on Conscience 12 Butler on Self-Deceit 13 The Significance of Butler 4 William Law 1 Introduction 2 Law’s Life 3 Law as a Non-Juror 4 Law as Controversialist: Hoadly 5 Law as Controversialist: Mandeville 6 A Serious Call: Vocation 7 A Serious Call: Asceticism 8 A Serious Call: Literary Style 9 A Serious Call: Celibacy and Virginity 10 A Serious Call: An Ecclesial Ethic 11 A Serious Call: The Place of Reason 12 A Serious Call: Sanctification 13 Conclusion 5 Anglican Moral Theology, 1730–1800: Gay, Tucker, Paley and Wesley 1 Introduction 2 The Mid-Eighteenth Century and the Influence of Locke 3 John Gay and Theological Utilitarianism 4 Edmund Law and Richard Watson on Moral Teaching and Conscience 5 William Paley and Later Theological Utilitarianism 6 The Demise of Theological Utilitarianism 7 John Wesley: Context and Life 8 Wesley and Sanctification 9 Wesley and Butler 10 Wesley and Enthusiasm 11 Wesley on Emotion in Moral Judgement 12 Conclusion 6 Coleridge 1 Introduction 2 The Re-evaluation of Coleridge 3 Coleridge’s Life 4 Coleridge on Paley and Jeremy Taylor 5 Coleridge’s Reading of Neoplatonism 6 Coleridge and Kant 7 Coleridge and Aids to Reflection 8 Coleridge’s Legacy 9 Conclusion Conclusion to Part 1 Part 2: 1830–1950 7 John Henry Newman 1 Introduction: The Changing Historiography on Newman 2 The Anglican Newman 3 Newman’s Life 4 The Break with Evangelicalism 5 Newman on Humility 6 The Parochial Sermons 7 The University Sermons 8 Newman on Moral Character 9 Newman on Conscience 10 Newman on Personal Influence and Justice 11 Newman on Personal Responsibility 12 The Influence of Anglican Theologians: The Carolines 13 The Influence of Anglican Theologians: Butler 14 The Influence of Anglican Theologians: Coleridge 15 Conclusion 8 Frederick Denison Maurice 1 Introduction 2 Maurice’s Life 3 Moral Philosophy at Cambridge 4 Coleridge’s Influence on Maurice 5 Maurice’s Theological Anthropology 6 Maurice on Conscience 7 Biblical Theology and Christian Ethics 8 Criticisms of Maurice’s Theology 9 Maurice’s Contribution to Anglican Moral Theology 9 The Lux Mundi School 1 Introduction 2 The Influence of John Stuart Mill and Utilitarianism 3 The Lux Mundi Theologians: Charles Gore, Henry Scott Holland and R. C. Moberly 4 Philosophical Idealism at Oxford 5 Green’s Moral Philosophy 6 Bradley on Self-Realization 7 Donald MacKinnon on the British Idealists 8 Gore on Christ’s Moral Character 9 Gore on Social Morality 10 Holland on Faith and Moral Will 11 Holland on Christian Moral Character 12 Moberly on Self-Realization 13 Inge’s Response to Moberly’s Idealism 14 Moberly on Penitence and Beauty 15 Conclusion 10 William Temple’s Christian Ethics 1 Introduction 2 Temple’s Life 3 Edward Caird and William Temple 4 The Faith and Modern Thought 5 The Nature of Personality 6 Mens Creatrix 7 Christus Veritas 8 Nature, Man and God 9 Reviews of Nature, Man and God 10 Temple’s Later Theology in the 1930s 11 Temple’s Aquinas Lecture, 1943 12 Temple’s Significance 11 Kenneth Kirk: History and Casuistry 1 Introduction 2 The Revival of Thomism and the First World War 3 Kirk’s Life 4 Casuistry and Conscience 5 How the Church Can Change Its Mind 6 Lambeth Conference, 1930 7 The Vision of God 8 Contemporary Anglican Moral Theologians on Kirk 9 Conclusion Conclusion: Anglican Moral Theology 1680–1950 Bibliography Index
