Unitarian Radicalism
Subtitle: Political Impact, 1770-1814
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: February 22, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780333969250
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History; Religion - World Religions; History: World; England; Europe - Great Britain - General; Modern - 18th Century; Unitarian Universalism; History / Modern / 19th Century; Modern - 19th Century; 18th century; 19th century; Great Britain; Unitarian churches; Unitarians
Description: "Unitarian confrontation with the late eighteenth-century political establishment is reflected in published sermons, pamphlets and parliamentary debates. Price and Priestley were only the most notorious members of a well-educated, close-knit and highly articulate intellectual opposition, all the more formidable for dominating the major literary reviews.".

"Focusing on many lesser-known Dissenting publicists, this study uncovers largely unacknowledged continuities in Unitarian critiques of government policies, and in Unitarian campaigns against government interference in matters of conscience. The French Revolution was attractive to Unitarians because the new French constitution, like the American Bill of Rights, broke the stranglehold of an oppressive established church."--BOOK JACKET.