Enlightenment Prelate

2022-01-01

William Gibson. Enlightenment Prelate Benjamin Hoadly , 1676-1761 William Gibson C Enlightenment Prelate Enlightenment Prelate Benjamin Hoadly, 1676-1761 William Gibson James. Front Cover.

Author: William Gibson

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ISBN: 9780227176771

Category: History

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Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop successively of Bangor, Hereford, Salisbury and Winchester, was the most controversial English churchman of the eighteenth century, and he has unjustly gained the reputation of a negligent and political bishop. His sermon on the nature of Christ’s kingdom sparked the Bangorian controversy, which raged from 1717 to 1720 and generated hundreds of books, tracts and sermons, while his commitment to the Whigs and the cause of toleration for Dissenters earned him the antagonism of many contemporary and later churchmen. In this powerfully revisionist study, Hoadly emerges as a dedicated and conscientious bishop with strong and progressive principles. His commitment to the ideology of the Revolution of 1688 and to the comprehension of Dissenters into the Church of England are revealed as the principal motives for his work as a preacher, author and bishop. Gibson also shows how Hoadly’s stout defence of rationalism made him a contributor to the English Enlightenment, while his commitment to civil liberties made him a progenitor of the American Revolution. Above all, however, the goal of reuniting of English Protestants remained the heart of Hoadly’s legacy.
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Lay Activism and the High Church Movement of the Late Eighteenth Century

2015-05-07

249 Gibson, Enlightenment Prelate, 260–261. 250 Gibson, Enlightenment Prelate, 261. 251 Gascoigne, 'Anglican Latitudinarianism and Political Radicalism in the Late Eighteenth Century', 25; John Gascoigne, Cambridge in the Age of the ...

Author: Robert M. Andrews

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9789004293793

Category: Religion

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In Lay Activism and the High Church Movement of the Late Eighteenth Century, Robert M. Andrews presents a biography of the late eighteenth-century High Church layman, William Stevens (1732-1807), elucidating his influence within the High Church movement of his day.
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Ethical Rationalism and Secularisation in the British Enlightenment

2020-10-22

Michael L. Frazer, The Enlightenment of Sympathy: Justice and the Moral Sentiments in the Eighteenth Century and Today ... William Gibson, Enlightenment Prelate: Benjamin Hoadly, 1676–1761 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Bibliography 317.

Author: Dafydd Mills Daniel

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783030522032

Category: Philosophy

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This book reassesses the ethics of reason in the Age of the Reason, making use of the neglected category of conscience. Arguing that conscience was a central feature of British Enlightenment ethical rationalism, the book explores the links between Enlightenment philosophy and modern secularisation, while responding to longstanding criticisms of rational intuitionism and the analogy between mathematics and morals, derived from David Hume and Immanuel Kant. Questioning in what sense British Enlightenment ethical rationalism can be associated with a secularising ‘Enlightenment project’, Daniel investigates the extent to which contemporary, and secular liberal, invocations of reason and conscience rely on the early modern Christian metaphysics they have otherwise disregarded. The chapters cover a rich collection of subjects, ranging from the Enlightenment’s secular legacy, reason and conscience in the history of ethics, and controversies in the Scottish Enlightenment, to the role of British moralists such as John Locke, Joseph Butler and Adam Smith in the secularisation of reason and conscience. Each chapter expertly refines Enlightenment ethical rationalism by reinterpreting its most influential proponents in eighteenth-century Britain – the followers of ‘Isaac Newton’s bulldog’ Samuel Clarke – including Richard Price (Edmund Burke’s opponent over the French Revolution) and John Witherspoon (the only clergyman to sign the US declaration of Independence).
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Religion and the Enlightenment 1600 1800

2007

The study shows that both the militancy of the seventeenth century and the enlightened moderation of the eighteenth ... He has published widely on religion and society between 1600 and 1850 , including Enlightenment Prelate , Benjamin ...

Author: William Gibson

Publisher: Peter Lang

ISBN: 3039109227

Category: History

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This book considers how Early Modern England was transformed from a turbulent and rebellious kingdom into a peaceable land. By considering the history of Taunton, Somerset, the most rebellious town in the kingdom, it is possible to see how the emerging features of the Enlightenment - moderation, reason and rational theology - effected that transformation. The experience of Taunton in the seventeenth century was marked by economic fluctuations of the cloth trade and military struggles in the Civil War, the Monmouth Rebellion and the Glorious Revolution. The primary motivation for the citizens was zealous Puritanism. It inspired support for Parliament and rebellion against James II. But in the final quarter of the century a new rational and moderate Protestantism emerged from the largest Nonconformist congregation in the country and from a distinguished dissenting academy. The study shows that both the militancy of the seventeenth century and the enlightened moderation of the eighteenth century were principally inspired by religious rather than secular values. This book contributes to our understanding of England's transformation and of the religious factors that stimulated it.
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The Cambridge History of Christianity Volume 7 Enlightenment Reawakening and Revolution 1660 1815

2006-12-07

Flaningam , John , “ The occasional conformity controversy : Ideology and party politics , 1697–1711 " , Journal of British studies , 17 ( 1977 ) , pp . 38–62 . Gibson , William , Enlightenment prelate : Benjamin Hoadly , 631 Bibliography.

Author: Steart J. Brown

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 052181605X

Category: History

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Explores the impact of the Enlightenment, the religious re-awakenings and revolution on the Christian church.
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Enlightenment Prelate

2004

This book is the first full-length study of Hoadly to be published, and is a powerfully revisionist study. Hoadly emerges as a dedicated and conscientious bishop with strong and progressive principles.

Author: William Gibson

Publisher: James Clarke & Co.

ISBN: 0227679784

Category: Religion

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Benjamin Hoadly (1676-1761), Bishop successively of Bangor, Hereford, Salisbury and Winchester, was the most controversial English churchman of the eighteenth century. He has unjustly gained the reputation of a negligent and political bishop, and with this publication, Gibson attempts to reappraise the legacy of this influential man. It was Hoadly's sermon on the nature of Christ's kingdom that sparked the Bangorian controversy which raged from 1717 to 1720. His sermons, books and tracts poured from the press in huge quantities and were widely read by Anglicans and Dissenters alike, yet his commitment to the ideology of the Revolution of 1688 and to the comprehension of Dissenters into the Church of England earned him the antagonism of many contemporary and later churchmen. This book is the first full-length study of Hoadly to be published, and is a powerfully revisionist study. Hoadly emerges as a dedicated and conscientious bishop with strong and progressive principles. He asserted the right of individuals to judge the Bible for themselves without the shackles of ecclesiastical authority and sought to establish a liberal enclave in the Church to re-attract Dissenters. He also restored a strongly Protestant commemorative view of the Eucharist to the Church. But it was not simply his ecclesiastical work which made him such an important figure. Hoadly's stout defence of rationalism made him a founder of the English Enlightenment. His views on the nature of political authority also drew heavily on John Locke, and Hoadly was responsible for bringing Locke's views to a wide audience. It was his commitment to civil liberties which made him a progenitor of the American Revolution whilst his writing on the nature of civil authority was acclaimed by John Adams as a source of American liberties and of the US Constitution. He also advanced sincerity of belief over the right of the State to impose penalties for the failure to conform. In these principles he presaged the future direction of both religion and society.
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Enlightenment Prelate

2022-03-31

A reappraisal of the legacy of Benjamin Hoadly, the 18th Century bishop whose liberal and rationalist views had a considerable influence on the English Enlightenment and the American Revolution.

Author: William Gibson

Publisher: ISD LLC

ISBN: 9780227906545

Category: Religion

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A reappraisal of the legacy of Benjamin Hoadly, the 18th Century bishop whose liberal and rationalist views had a considerable influence on the English Enlightenment and the American Revolution.
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Religion Loyalty and Sedition

2016-11-15

... very grateful to Paulina Kewes for sight of her researches on Persons which has informed this paragraph. 15 S. Brogan, The Royal Touch in Early Modern England (Woodbridge, 2015). 16 W. Gibson, Enlightenment Prelate, Benjamin Hoadly, ...

Author: William Gibson

Publisher: University of Wales Press

ISBN: 9781786830555

Category: History

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The Hanoverian Succession of 1714 has not attracted the scholarly attention that it deserves. This is partly because the idea of the ‘long eighteenth century’, stretching from 1688 to 1832, has tended to treat the period as one without breaks. However, 1714 was in some respects as significant a date as 1688. It was the last time in British history that there was a dynastic change and one in which religious issues were at the forefront in people’s minds. This collection of essays were among the papers delivered at conferences in 2014 to mark the tercentenary of the Hanoverian Succession of 1714, held at Oxford Brookes University and Bath Spa University. They reflect some of the major issues that were evident in the period before, during and after 1714. In particular, they deal with how disloyalty was managed by the government and by individuals. They also demonstrate how central religion was to the process of securing the Hanoverian Succession and to the identity of the new regime established by George I. Disloyalty – real or imagined – was apparent in legal suits, in sermons and preaching, and in the material culture of the period. And once the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 had been overcome, the need to secure the loyalty of the Church and clergy was a key objective of the government.
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Dan Taylor 1738 1816 Baptist Leader and Pioneering Evangelical

2018-07-31

For an overview of Hoadly's ministry and theological convictions, see Gibson, Enlightenment Prelate. 53. See ibid., 149–52. 54. For an examination of this controversy, see Starkie, Church of England. 55. Dalrymple [George Legh], Letter ...

Author: Richard T. Pollard

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

ISBN: 9781532636196

Category: Religion

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Dan Taylor was a leading English eighteenth-century General Baptist minister and founder of the New Connexion of General Baptists—a revival movement. This book provides considerable new light on the theological thinking of this important evangelical figure. The major themes examined are Taylor’s spiritual formation; soteriology; understanding of the atonement; beliefs regarding the means and process of conversion; ecclesiology; approach to baptism, the Lord’s Supper, and worship; and missiology. The nature of Taylor’s evangelicalism—its central characteristics, underlying tendencies, evidence of the shaping influence of certain Enlightenment values, and ways that it was outworked—reflect that which was distinct about evangelicalism as a movement emerging from the eighteenth-century Evangelical Revival. It is thus especially relevant to recent debates regarding the origins of evangelicalism. Taylor’s evangelicalism was particularly marked by its pioneering nature. His propensity for innovation serves as a unifying theme throughout the book, with many of its accompanying patterns of thinking and practical expressions demonstrating that which was distinct about evangelicalism in the eighteenth century.
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Reconsidering Biography

2012

For background on Hoadly's polemical disputes with Leslie, see Gibson, Enlightenment Prelate, 99–104. For Hoadly's use of Hooker, see Original and Institution, 131–69. 16. B Life, 4:286n3 (italics in the original). 17.

Author: Martine Watson Brownley

Publisher: Lexington Books

ISBN: 9781611483833

Category: Biography & Autobiography

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Although Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson has long been an essential source for readers interested in Samuel Johnson, for over two hundred years now Hawkins's biography has been systematically misread, misinterpreted, and misunderstood. Reconsidering Biography opens a long-needed critical debate on Hawkins's achievement as a biographer, and in the process argues for important changes in prevailing scholarly views of Hawkins, Johnson, and English biography itself.
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