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Restoration, Reformation and Reform, 1660-1828

Archbishops of Canterbury and Their Diocese

  • Hardback
  • 370 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 2.6 cm

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For students and scholars of Church history

Analyzes the complexities of the Restoration Church

You will gain a deeper understanding of ecclesiastical reform

This insightful book explores the Church of England's evolution from 1660 to 1828.

This wide-ranging and original book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the Church of England in the long eighteenth century. It explores the nature of the Restoration ecclesiastical regime, the character of the clerical profession, the quality of the clergy's pastoral work, and the question of Church reform through a detailed study of the diocese of the archbishops of Canterbury. In so doing the book covers the political, social, economic, cultural, intellectual and pastoral functions of the Church and, by adopting a broad chronological span, it allows the problems and difficulties often ascribed to the eighteenth-century Church to be viewed as emerging from the seventeenth century and as continuing well into the nineteenth century. Moreover, the author argues that some of the traditional periodizations and characterisations of conventional religious history need modification. Much of the evidence presented here indicates that clergy in the one hundred and seventy years after 1660 were preoccupied with difficulties which had concerned their forebears and would concern their successors.In many ways, clergy in the diocese of Canterbury between 1660 and 1828 continued the work of seventeenth-century clergy, particularly in following through, and in some instances instigating, the pastoral and professional aims of the Reformation, as well as participating in processes relating to Church reform, and further anticipating some of the deals of the Evangelical and Oxford Movements. Reluctance to recognise this has led historians to neglect the strengths of the Church between the Restoration and the 1830s, which, it is argued, should not be judged primarily for its failure to attain the ideals of these other movements, but as an institution possessing its own coherent and positive rationale.
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  • Title

    Restoration, Reformation and Reform, 1660-1828

  • Author

    Jeremy Gregory

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    April 2000

  • Weight

    622g

  • Page Count

    370

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 2.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780198208303

  • ISBN-10

    0198208308

  • Eden Code

    1190609

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