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Book SynopsisThe struggle between orthodox Anglicans and freethinkers is central to an understanding of religious power and political authority in the eighteenth century. In this 1999 book, leading scholars show how the assault on orthodoxy influenced the development of law, historiography, public policy, philosophy and the rise of the novel.
Trade Review"...outstanding study of the development of orthodoxy, heterodoxy, and toleration or religious diversity after the Restoration of 1660." Marcella Barton, Church History
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction Roger D. Lund; Part I. The Ideology and Origins of Heterodoxy: 1. Within the margins: the definitions of orthodoxy J. G. A. Pocock; 2. Freethinking and libertinism: the legacy of the English Revolution Christopher Hill; Part II. Locke and Heterodox Opinion: 3. Anticlericalism and authority in Lockean political thought Richard Ashcraft; 4. John Locke, conservative radical G. A. J. Rogers; Part III. Policing the Margins: 5. Samuel Parker, religious diversity, and the ideology of persecution Gordon Schochet; 6. The Societies for the Reformation of Manners: between Locke and the devil in Augustan England Shelley Burtt; 7. Irony as subversion: Thomas Woolston and the crime of wit Roger D. Lund; 8. The limits of moderation in a Latitudinarian parson; or, High Church zeal in a Low Churchman discover'd Jeffrey S. Chamberlain; Part IV. Orthodox Defenses, Heterodox Results: 9. Deists and Anglicans: the ancient wisdom and the idea of progress Joseph M. Levine; 10. Henry Fielding and the problem of deism Ronald Paulson; Bibliography; Index.
