Research Catalog

Title

Religion and public doctrine in modern England / Maurice Cowling.

Author

Cowling, Maurice.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1980-2001.

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Details

Description

3 volumes; 23 cm.

Summary

• Volume One:"In Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England, Maurice Cowling defines the principles according to which the intellectual history of modern England should be written and argue that the history of Christianity is of primary importance. In this volume, which is self-contained, he makes a further contribution to understanding the role which Christianity has played in modern English thought. There are critical accounts of the thought of Toynbee, T.S. Eliot, Collingwood, Butterfield, Oakeshott, David Knowles, Evelyn Waugh and Churchill. It also contains less extended accounts of the thought of A.N. Whitehead, of Enoch Powell Minister. The book is given coherence by the connected ideas of the ubiquity of religion, of literature as an instrument of religious indoctrination, and of the intimacy of the connections between the political, philosophical, literary and religious assumptions that are to be found among the leaders of the English intelligentsia."--Publisher's description.
• Volume Two: "In this volume, which is self-contained, he makes a further contribution to understanding the role which Christianity has played in modern English thought. The book is unusual in its concentration on argument. Cowling relates Christian argument to secular argument and secular argument to Christian argument, discussing Tractarianism and Ultramontanism in the context of secular humanism and pessimistic illusionlessness, and vice versa. The roles of science and history are discussed. The book is given coherence by the connected ideas of the ubiquity of religion, of literature as an instrument of religious indoctrination, and of the intimacy of the connections between the political, philosophical, literary and religious assumptions that are to be found among the leaders of the English intelligentsia."--Publisher's description.
• Volume Three: "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."--Publisher's description.

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in the history and theory of politics

Uniform Title

Cambridge studies in the history and theory of politics.

Subject

• Since 1485
• Christian sociology > England > History
• Conservatism > England > History
• 11.59 church history, history of doctrine: other
• Christian sociology
• Conservatism
• Politische Philosophie
• Theologie
• Christendom
• Modernisme (cultuur)
• Geistesgeschichte 1840-1980
• Geschichte 1750-2000
• Geschichte 1750-1985
• England > Church history > 1485-
• England
• Großbritannien

Genre/Form

• Church history
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Contents

v. 1. [without special title] -- v. 2. Assaults -- v. 3. Accommodations

ISBN

• 0521232899
• 9780521232890
• 0521259592
• 9780521259590
• 0521259606
• 9780521259606
• 052154517X
• 9780521545174

LCCN

80040614

OCLC

• ocm06709133
• 6709133
• SCSB-27210

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library