Restoration, Reformation, and Reform, 1660-1828 : Archbishops of Cantebury and Their Diocese
Jeremy Gregory (Author), EBSCO Publishing (Firm)
Annotation 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 h
eBook, English, May 2000
Oxford University Press, Incorporated, New York, May 2000
College Audience
1 online resource
9780198208303, 9780191543135, 0198208308, 0191543136
1001975811
Intro; TITLE PAGE; FOREWORD; CONTENTS; LIST OF MAPS; LIST OF TABLES; ABBREVIATIONS AND NOTE ON DATES; INTRODUCTION; I. PERSONNEL; Archbishops and the Dean and Chapter; The Parish Clergy; II. THE CHURCH AND THE ECONOMY; The Administration of Church Property; The Economy of the Parish; III. THE CHURCH AND SOCIETY; The Church and the Problem of Nonconformity; The Church and the Parish; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX