Enlightenment Prelate
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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-227-17839-3
- EAN: 9780227178393
- Produktnummer: 38617117
- Verlag: James Clarke & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 400 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.7 cm 781 g
- Abbildungen: HC runder Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
- Gewicht: 781
Über den Autor
William Gibson is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford Brookes University, and Director of the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries. His recent books include Samuel Wesley and the Crisis of Tory Piety, 1685-1720 and The Oxford Handbook of the British Sermon 1689-1901.
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