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Religion in Enlightenment England introduces its readers to a rich array of British Christian texts published between 1660 and 1750. The anthology documents the arc of Christian writings from the reestablishment of the Church of England to the rise of the Methodist movement in the middle of the eighteenth century. The Enlightenment era witnessed the explosion of mass print culture and the unprecedented expansion of literacy across society. These changes transformed many inherited Christian genres - such as the sermon and the devotional manual - while also generating new ones, from the modern church hymn to spiritual autobiography.
The authors included in this collection confronted the rise of modern science and forged new rules of modern toleration. Their writing reveals the unprecedented spiritual authority assumed by women and helps explain how emotion moved to the center of religious experience. Religion in Enlightenment England captures the literary energy and excitement unleashed by the Enlightenment itself: authors engage one another in spirited dialogue that pits reason against revelation, religious conformity against dissent, innovation against tradition, and Freethinking against natural religion.
An indispensable asset for any scholar's library, the anthology includes texts by William Law, John Bunyan, Elizabeth Singer Rowe, John and Charles Wesley, Richard Baxter, John Toland, Mary Astell, Daniel Defoe, John Norris, Margaret Fell Fox, Isaac Watts, Thomas Traherne, John Tillotson, William Penn, and Anne Conway.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Anglican Apologetics
John Tillotson
Mary Astell
William Law
II. Dissenting Voices
Margaret Fell
Richard Baxter
John Bunyan
William Penn
Daniel Defoe
Isaac Watts
III. The Methodist Movement
John Wesley
George Whitefield
IV. Freethinking
Anthony Collins
John Toland
V. Nature
John Ray
Richard Blackmore
VI. Visions
Thomas Traherne
Anne Conway
Jane Lead
VII. Miracle
Anonymous
John Toland
Samuel Clarke
David Hartley
VIII. Spirits
Joseph Glanvill
Francis Hutchinson
Daniel Defoe
IX. Devotion
John Norris
William Law
Elizabeth Singer Rowe
X. The Hymn
Nicholas Brady and Nahum Tate
Richard Baxter
Thomas Ken
John Mason
Benjamin Keach
Isaac Watts
Charles Wesley
XI. Spiritual Autobiography
John Bunyan
Anne Dutton
