Title: Church, state, and society, 1760-1850 /
Authors: Gibson, William,
Publisher: Macmillan ; St. Martin's Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Church of England History; Church of England History; Church and state England History; Church and state England History; England Church history; England Church history; Great Britain History; Great Britain History
Abstract: The period between 1760 and 1850 was one of the most rapid periods of change in British history. The emergence of an industrial economy, the development of pressures for social and political reforms and the growth of Nonconformist churches posed threats to the Church. In this wide-ranging survey, William Gibson considers both the challenges to the churches and their responses.
Contents: 1. The established church in 1760. The Church's involvement in politics ; The development of the clerical profession ; the character of the episcopate ; Pluralism and non-residence ; The Church and the people in 1760 ; Clerical incomes ; A reformed and unreformed Church? ; The Church in Wales -- 2. Church and State, 1760-1830. The Church's relations with the State : the American Revolution and the abolition of slavery ; The impact of the French Revolution ; The Tory Governments and Church patronage, 1801-30 ; Church parties : the Hackney Phalanx and the Clapham Sect ; The Church, toleration and emancipation, 1760-1830 -- 3. Religion and social change. Methodism and politics : the Halevy thesis ; Patterns of religious practice, 1760-1850 ; The urban Church and industrialisation ; The Church's wider social missions -- 4. The Church and the reforms of the 1830s. The Church and the 1832 Reform Act ; The Church and the ecclesiastical reforms of the 1830s ; The Church and the Whig reforms of the 1830s ; The Whigs and Church patronage, 1830-41 ; Reform and the Oxford Movement.