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

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...