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It has long been accepted that when Samuel Taylor Coleridge rejected the Unitarianism of his youth and returned to the Church of England, he did so while accepting a general Christian orthodoxy. Christopher Corbin clarifies Coleridge's religious identity and argues that while Coleridge's Christian orthodoxy may have been sui generis, it was closely aligned with moderate Anglican Evangelicalism. Approaching religious identity as a kind of culture that includes distinct forms of language and networks of affiliation in addition to beliefs and practices, this book looks for the distinguishable movements present in Coleridge's Britain to more precisely locate his religious identity than can be done by appeals to traditional denominational divisions. Coleridge's search for unity led him to desire and synthesize the warmth of heart religion (symbolized as Methodism) with the light of rationalism (symbolized as Socinianism), and the evangelicalism in the Church of England, being the

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The Evangelical Party and Samuel Taylor

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Published 6/30/2021 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9781032094120
      978-1032094120
      ISBN-10 1032094125
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      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Literary studies: general

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      It has long been accepted that when Samuel Taylor Coleridge rejected the Unitarianism of his youth and returned to the Church of England, he did so while accepting a general Christian orthodoxy. Christopher Corbin clarifies Coleridge's religious identity and argues that while Coleridge's Christian orthodoxy may have been sui generis, it was closely aligned with moderate Anglican Evangelicalism. Approaching religious identity as a kind of culture that includes distinct forms of language and networks of affiliation in addition to beliefs and practices, this book looks for the distinguishable movements present in Coleridge's Britain to more precisely locate his religious identity than can be done by appeals to traditional denominational divisions. Coleridge's search for unity led him to desire and synthesize the warmth of heart religion (symbolized as Methodism) with the light of rationalism (symbolized as Socinianism), and the evangelicalism in the Church of England, being the

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