Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Anglican Church

"This is an impressively focused work detailing Coleridge's biographical journey through radical politics and high Toryism with an initial and final commitment to Anglicanism, despite encounters and affiliations with other denominations. [A]n original work of scholarship that contributes to an understanding of Coleridge's thought and to the study of church-state theory of the nineteenth century."-Claire Colebrook, Pennsylvania State University. "Wright's book establishes, persuasively, that Coleridge's radicalism, both political and theological, was indeed fleeting and that Coleridge made very significant contribution to what has been called 'The gathering forces of Toryism.' Further, the book traces Coleridge's adaptation of Hooker as he confronted, theologically, the writings a Sacheverell and Warburton and, ultimately, traces his idea of a clerisy and influence on Gladstone and thus the Oxford Movement."-Richard S. Tomlinson, Richland College. "This erudite analysis of Coleridge's theology will-provide Scholars and critics with valuable new perspectives on a difficult subject."-Duncan Wu, Georgetown University. This book is the first systematic historical examination of Samuel Taylor. Coleridge's prose religious works. Coleridge (1772-1834) was a prolific writer on the subject of the relationship between church and state. His major contribution to Anglican religious discourse was the revival of the Tory position that the two were 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. Wrighes careful, reconstruction of Coleridge's dedication, to church-state issues provides a new perspective ore the writer himself and on the intellectual history of early-nineteenth-century England. --Book Jacket.

שנה

2010

שפה

English

הוצאה

University of Notre Dame Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

295

ISBN

9780268044183

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata