The English Church in the Eighteenth Century

A historical study of the English national church in the eighteenth century traces theological debates, institutional change, and popular movements. It examines the Deistical controversy and its collapse, latitudinarian theology exemplified by Archbishop Tillotson, the Nonjurors and High Church currents, efforts at comprehension and reform, and the rise of Methodism and evangelical revival. Chapters analyze doctrinal disputes, evidential theology, ecclesiastical politics including church–state relations, clergy life, religious societies, and changing patterns of piety, combining biographical sketches, doctrinal critique, and institutional narrative to explain both decline in parts of the establishment and renewed practical activity at century's end.