The English Church in the Eighteenth Century

The middle part of the eighteenth century presents a somewhat curious spectacle to the student of Church history. From one point of view the Church of England seemed to be signa...

Thirty years or more of the present century had passed before the Church awoke to put its material house in order, to improve and beautify its churches, and to improve the chara...

Few things are more prominent in the religious history of England in the eighteenth century, than the general suspicion entertained against anything that passed under the name o...

High Churchmanship, as it was commonly understood in Queen Anne's reign, did not possess many attractive features. Its nobler and more spiritual elements were sadly obscured ami...

The Latitudinarianism which occupies so conspicuous and important a place in English ecclesiastical history during the half century which followed upon the Revolution of 1688 ha...

Of the many controversies which were rife during the first half of the eighteenth century, none raised a question of greater importance than that which lay at the root of the De...

Never since her Reformation had the Church of England given so fair a promise of a useful and prosperous career as she did at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Everything...

'Latitudinarian' is not so neutral a term as could be desired. It conveys an implication of reproach and suspicion, by no means ungrounded in some instances, but very inappropri...

In an age which above all things prided itself upon its reasonableness, it would have been strange indeed if that doctrine of Christianity which is objected to by unbelievers as...

The claim which the intellectual and religious life of England in the eighteenth century has upon our interest has been much more generally acknowledged of late years than was t...

Comprehension in the English Church, 147 Attitude towards Rome in eighteenth century, 148 Strength of Protestant feeling, 148 Exceptional interest in the Gallican Church, 149 Ar...

Meaning of 'Enthusiasm' as generally dreaded in the eighteenth century, 226 A vague term, but important in the history of the period, 227 As entering into most theological quest...

Contrast with the coarser forms of High Churchmanship in that age, 26 Robert Nelson: general sketch of his life and doings, 27 His Nonjuring friends, 31 Ken, 31 Bancroft and Fra...

Fair prospect at the beginning of the eighteenth century, 279 Contrast between promise and performance, 279 Shortcomings of the Church exaggerated on many sides, 280 _General ca...

Strength and weakness of the Church in the middle of the eighteenth century, 313 Propriety of the term 'Evangelical Revival', 314 Contrast between Puritans and Evangelicals, 315...

Revived interest in the religious life of the eighteenth century, 1 Lowered tone prevalent during a great part of the period, 2 Loss of strength in the Puritan and Nonjuring eje...

The 'Georgian Age', 403 General sameness in the externals of worship, 404 Church architecture, 405 Vandalisms, 407 Whitewash, 408 Repairs of churches, 409 Church naves; relics o...

_Last four Years of Queen Anne_, bk. i. The first and most prominent subject of Bishop Butler's 'Durham Charge,' is 'the general decay of religion,' 'which,' he says, 'is now ob...

Points at issue in the Deistical controversy, 75-6 Deists not properly a sect, 76 Some negative tenets of the Deists, 77 Excitement caused by the subject of Deism, 78 Toland's '...

Use of the term 'Latitudinarian', 112 In the eighteenth century, 113 Archbishop Tillotson:-- His close relationship with the eighteenth century, 115 His immense repute as a writ...

Importance of the question at issue, 197 Four different views on the subject, 198 Bull's 'Defensio Fidei Nicænæ', 199 Sherlock, Wallis, and South on the Trinity, 200 Charles Les...