The newly written introduction will be a go-to source for scholars and students to briefly familiarize
themselves with the import of ecclesiology in early modern politics. This excellent volume should be of interest to various scholars of religious history and theology-particularly of toleration, restoration literature, and political theory, as well as providing useful historical perspective for the growing number of scholars researching post-secular and post-liberal accounts of contemporary society.

RELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW

The Boydell Press is to be praised for producing what in some quarters is spoken of as a relic of academic publishing: a volume of collected essays. The cumulative effect of reading this collection of his essays is to be reminded that nobody has done more than Goldie to shape the modern
study of the Restoration, and nobody has done so as elegantly.

ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW

What did people in Restoration England think the correct relationship between church state should be? And how did this thinking evolve? Based on the author's published essays, revised and updated with a new overarching introduction, this book explores the debates in Restoration England about "godly rule". The book assesses some of the crucial transitions in English history: how the late Reformation gave way to the early Enlightenment; how Royalism became Toryism and Puritanism became Whiggism; how the power of churchmen was challenged by virulent anticlericalism; how the verities of "divine right" theory revived and collapsed. Providing a distinctive account of English thought in the era between the two revolutions of the Stuart century, "Contesting the English Polity, 1660-1688" discusses the ideological foundations of emerging party politics, and the deep intellectual roots of competing visions for the commonwealth, placing the power of religion, and the taming of religion, squarely alongside constitutional battles within secular politics.
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What did people in Restoration England think the correct relationship between church and state should be? And how did this thinking evolve?
Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Theory of Royal Sovereignty 2. The Theory of Religious Intolerance 3. The Reception of Thomas Hobbes 4. Danby, the Bishops, and the Whigs 5. Priestcraft and the Birth of Whiggism 6. Toleration and the Godly Prince 7. Toleration and the Huguenots 8. Andrew Marvell's Adversaries 9. Annual Parliaments and Aristocratic Whiggism 10. William Lawrence and the Case for King Monmouth 11. Sir Peter Pett, Sceptical Toryism, and the Science of Toleration 12. The Political Thought of the Anglican Revolution 13. John Locke and Anglican Royalism Index
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ISBN
9781783277360
Publisert
2023-09-19
Utgiver
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Vekt
589 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
344

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Biografisk notat

Mark Goldie is Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College. He has edited or authored 12 books and published more than 60 essays on British political, religious, and intellectual history in the period 1650-1800. Two of his books are published by Boydell and Brewer: The Entring Book of Roger Morrice and Roger Morrice and the Puritan Whigs.