Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England: Volume 3, Accommodations

by Maurice Cowling

Overview

The concluding volume of Maurice Cowling's magisterial sequence examines three related strands of thought—latitudinarianism, the Christian thought that has assumed that latitudinarianism gives away too much, and the post-Christian thought that has assumed that Christianity is irrelevant or anachronistic. Cowling conducts his argument through a series of encounters with individual thinkers, including Burke, Disraeli, the Arnolds, and Tennyson in the first half, and Darwin, Keynes, Orwell and Leavis in the second.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521259606
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/16/2001
Series:	Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
Pages:	792
Product dimensions:	5.94(w) x 8.86(h) x 1.73(d)

About the Author

Maurice Cowling was born in London in 1926. He was educated at Battersea Grammar School and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he read History. He did military service between 1944 and 1948 in the British and Indian armies. He as a Fellow of Jesus College from 1950 to 1953 and, after a period spent chiefly in London, returned to Jesus as a Fellow in 1961. Since 1963 he has been a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and from 1976–93 University Reader in Modern English History.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part V. The Christian Intellect and Modern Thought in Modern England: 1. The reanimation of protestantism I: Carlyle, Froude and Kingsley; 2. Christianity and literature I: Burke and Disraeli; 3. The reanimation of protestantism II: Thomas Arnold, Bunsen, Jowett, Stanley, Lyall and Max Muller; 4. The enlargement of Christianity: Matthew Arnold, Seeley, Sidgwick and Wicksteed; 5. Christianity and literature II: Dickens, Tennyson, Browning, Pater and Wilde; 6. Christianity and modern knowledge I: Stirling, Wallace, Caird and Green; 7. Whiggism, liberalism and Christianity I: Macaulay, Lecky, Bryce and Fisher; 8. Whiggism, liberalism and Christianity II: Fitzjames Stephen, Acton, Maine, Inge, Henson and Smuts; 9. Christianity and modern knowledge II: Whewell, Stubbs and Cunningham; 10. Christianity in an unfriendly world I: Shaftesbury, Maurice, Westcott, Tawney and Temple; 11. Christianity in an unfriendly world II: Forsyth, Masterman, Gore, Figgis and Lewis; 12. Christianity in an unfriendly world III: Underhill, Eddington, Needham, Zaehner and Jung; 13. Christianity in an unfriendly world IV: Balfour, Ashley and Joseph Chamberlain; 14. Christianity in an unfriendly world V: Milbank and Macintyre; Part VI. The Post-Christian Consensus: 15. Modern knowledge and the post-Christian consensus I: Darwin, Dawkins, Galton and Pearson; 16. Modern knowledge and the post-Christian consensus II: Freud, J. B. S. Haldane, Huxley and Popper; 17. Modern knowledge and the post-Christian consensus III: F. H. Bradley, Bosanquet, R. B. Haldane, A. C. Bradley, Elgar, Parry and Hadow; 18. Modern knowledge and the post-Christian consensus IV: Maitland, Hobhouse, Keynes and Hayek; 19. English socialism as English religion: The Webbs, Macdonald, Laski, Orwell and Crossman; 20. Literature and the post-Christian consensus: Wordsworth, Hardy, Kipling and Forster; 21. Modern knowledge and the post-Christian consensus V: Richards and Leavis; 22. Modern knowledge and the post-Christian consensus VI: Williams, Eagleton, Kenny, Skinner and Scruton; 23. Judaism and the post-Christian consensus: Namier, Berlin, Koestler and Steiner; 24. Complication and dilapidation; Conclusion: the author and the argument; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"...Maurice Cowling has written a masterpiece not to be ignored by the religious-minded." Catholic Historical Review

"...by tracing in such extraordinary detail the transformation of British religious culture, [Cowling] has provided rich fare that will stimulate the academy for years." History: Review of New Books

"Cowling's study...is a highly detailed study of writers and thinkers who have influenced Christian, post-Christian, and anti-Christian thought in England...it is massive in scope, broad in its coverage...fascinating in the personal nature of its interpretation." Catholic Library World

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