Enlightenment Prelate
Benjamin Hoadly, 1676-1761
by William Gibson
Hardback (No longer our product)
(August 2022)
ISBN: 9780227178393
6.1 x 9.96 inches
Price: $123.00
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A revisionist study of Benjamin Hoadly in the context of church, national and international politics in the eighteenth century.
Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop successively of Bangor, Hereford, Salisbury and Winchester, was the most controversial English churchman of the eighteenth century, and he has unjustly gained the reputation of a negligent and political bishop. His sermon on the nature of Christ’s kingdom sparked the Bangorian controversy, which ranged from 1717 to 1720 and generated hundreds of books, tracts and sermons, while his commitment to the Whigs and the cause of toleration for Dissenters earned him the antagonism of many contemporary and later churchmen. In this powerfully revisionist study, Hoadly emerges as a dedicated and conscientious bishop with strong and progressive principles. His commitment to the ideology of the Revolution of 1688 and to the comprehension of Dissenters into the Church of England are revealed as the principal motives for his work as a preacher, author and bishop. Gibson also shows how Hoadly’s stout defence of rationalism made him a contributor to the English Enlightenment, while his commitment to civil liberties made him a progenitor of the American Revolution. Above all, however, the goal of reuniting of English Protestants remained the heart of Hoadly’s legacy.
- By (author) William Gibson
"William Gibson's Benjamin Hoadly set a new standard for ecclesiastical biography on its first publication in 2004 and rescued its subject from caricature. This welcome second edition, taking account of the most recent scholarship, restates the convincing case for Hoadly's enduring influence and his centrality to theological debate for most of the eighteenth century." Nigel Aston, Honorary Fellow in History, University of Leicester, and Research Associate, University of York "Through a deep, sympathetic, and sustained analysis of Hoadly's thought, we find here a convincing account of the Whig side of the leading debates of late Stuart and early Hanoverian England. Hoadly emerges from this important study as a more faithful churchman, a more loyal friend, and a better politician than even the best scholars had previously thought." James E. Bradly, Geoffrey W. Bromiley Professor of Church History, Fuller Seminary "In Gibson, Hoadly has found a diligent and thorough modern defender, with a fine grasp of contemporary ecclesiastical politics. Gibson's research, in both printed and archival records, is painstaking and admirable." Paul Monod, in H-Albion "Gibson has rescued the personality and character of Hoadly from the level of caricature. Here Hoadly emerges as the hero of Protestant Dissenters. fascinating, scholarly, exhaustively researched." Peter Nockles, in English Historical Review
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