| Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England Contributor(s): Cowling, Maurice (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521259606 ISBN-13: 9780521259606 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $166.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Religion | Christianity - History |
| Dewey: 274.208 |
| LCCN: 80040614 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics |
| Physical Information: 1.7" H x 5.7" W x 8.7" (2.2 lbs) 792 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cowling, Maurice: - Maurice Cowling was born in London in 1926. He was educated at Battersea Grammar School and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he read History. He did military service between 1944 and 1948 in the British and Indian armies. He as a Fellow of Jesus College from 1950 to 1953 and, after a period spent chiefly in London, returned to Jesus as a Fellow in 1961. Since 1963 he has been a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and from 1976-93 University Reader in Modern English History. |