Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England: Volume 1

Hardback

Main Details

Title Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England: Volume 1
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Maurice Cowling
SeriesCambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:504
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreChristianity
ISBN/Barcode 9780521232890
ClassificationsDewey:306.630942
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 11 December 1980
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

In Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England, Maurice Cowling defines the principles according to which the intellectual history of modern England should be written and argue that the history of Christianity is of primary importance. In this volume, which is self-contained, he makes a further contribution to understanding the role which Christianity has played in modern English thought. There are critical accounts of the thought of Toynbee, T. S. Eliot, Collingwood, Butterfield, Oakeshott, David Knowles, Evelyn Waugh and Churchill. It also contains less extended accounts of the thought of A. N. Whitehead, of Enoch Powell Minister. The book is given coherence by the connected ideas of the ubiquity of religion, of literature as an instrument of religious indoctrination, and of the intimacy of the connections between the political, philosophical, literary and religious assumptions that are to be found among the leaders of the English intelligentsia.