Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Anglican Church - Couverture souple

Wright, Luke

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 026804418X ISBN 13 : 9780268044183

Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 2010

Synopsis

This book is the first systematic historical examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's prose religious works. Coleridge (1772-1834), the son of a clergyman, "was born and died a communicating member of the Church of England." He was a prolific writer on the subject of the relationship between church and state. At age twenty-three, Coleridge published his first theological work, Lectures on Revealed Religion, which focused on the concept of reason facilitating virtue. Luke Wright maintains that this theme unites Coleridge's theological writings, including the posthumous Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit (1935). Although he was an advocate of radical politics in the 1790s, by the time Coleridge published The Friend (1809), he had become high Tory. His major contribution to Anglican religious discourse was the revival of the Tory position on church and state, which saw the two as an organic unity rather than separate entities forming an alliance. His writings were vigorously opposed to the Court Whig theory of church and state. After Coleridge's death in 1834, his arguments were taken up by William Gladstone and carried forward. Wright's careful reconstruction of Coleridge's dedication to church-state issues provides a new perspective on the writer himself and on the intellectual history of early nineteenth-century England.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Luke Savin Herrick Wright is a visiting scholar in the Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 026804418X
• ISBN 13: 9780268044183
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Allemagne