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Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England: Volume 2

Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England: Volume 2

Cowling, Maurice

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics

General ChristianityGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0521259592
ISBN13: 9780521259590
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 28 1985
Pages: 404
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.06 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In Volume 1 of Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England, Maurice Cowling defined the principles according to which the intellectual history of modern England should be written and argued that the history of Christianity was 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. 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.

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