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Author Andrews, Robert M. (Honorary Research Associate), author.

Title Lay activism and the high church movement of the late eighteenth century : the life and thought of William Stevens, 1732-1807 / by Robert M. Andrews
Published Leiden : Brill, [2015]
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Series Brill's series in church history, 1572-4107 ; volume 70
Brill's series in church history ; volume 70.
Contents Lay Activism and the High Church Movement of the Late Eighteenth Century: The Life and Thought of William Stevens, 1732-1807 -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Park's Memoirs -- Structure and Contents -- 1: Contexts: High Churchmanship and the Lay Precedent -- High Churchmanship: A Definition -- The Problem of Terminology -- High Churchmanship in Recent Scholarship -- Lay Activism in High Churchmanship: The Concept -- Lay Precedents -- Selected Biographical Sketches -- Robert Filmer (1588-1653) -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- John Evelyn (1620-1706) -- The Nonjurors and Robert Nelson (1656-1715) -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) -- Edmund Burke (1730-1797) -- A Forgotten Phenomenon: High Church Women -- Evangelical Lay Activists -- Conclusion -- 2: Background: A Man of Faith and Commerce -- Birth and Early Life -- An Apprentice in a Commercial World -- The Hosiery Trade -- A Pious and Studious Layman -- The Trappings of Commercial Success -- In Partnership with "Moloch the Iron King" -- Conclusion -- 3: Theological Activism (i): The 1770s -- Stevens' Theological Sources -- Hutchinsonianism -- Benjamin Kennicott and the Lettres de M. L'Abbé -- The Attack on the Thirty-nine Articles -- Cursory Observations -- An Ecclesiological Primer: The Treatise -- The Sin of Rebellion: The American Revolution -- A Discourse on the English Constitution -- Strictures on a Sermon -- The Revolution Vindicated and Constitutional Liberty Asserted -- Conclusion -- 4: Theological Activism (ii): 1780s to 1800s -- The 1780s and the Rise of Theological Heterodoxy -- The French Revolution and the Conservative Reaction -- The Society for the Reformation of Principles -- The British Critic -- The Scholar Armed -- The Fallout with the British Critic -- Defending the Legacy of Jones of Nayland
The Anti-Jacobin Review and the Orthodox Churchman's Magazine -- Defending John Hutchinson -- The High Church Critique of Natural Religion -- Conclusion -- 5: Ecclesiastical Activism -- The Art of Holy Living -- The Church Societies -- Treasurer of Queen Anne's Bounty -- Friends in the Episcopate -- In Aid of the "Poor Scotch Bishops" -- "Nobody" and His Friends -- "Nothing but Death" -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary In Lay Activism and the High Church Movement of the Late Eighteenth Century, Robert M. Andrews presents a biography of the late eighteenth-century High Church layman, William Stevens (1732-1807), elucidating his influence within the High Church movement of his day
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 28, 2015)
Subject Stevens, William, 1732-1807.
SUBJECT Stevens, William, 1732-1807 fast
Subject Church of England -- History -- 18th century
Church of England -- Biography.
SUBJECT Church of England fast
Subject Laity -- Church of England -- History -- 18th century
High Church movement -- England -- History -- 18th century
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Anglican.
Laity -- Church of England
High Church movement
SUBJECT England -- Church history -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043269
Subject England
Genre/Form Biographies
Church history
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004293793
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