Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England: Volume 1 (Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics)

Volume One: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. -- Publisher's Description. Volume Two: In This Volume, Which Is Self-contained, He Makes A Further Contribution To Understanding The Role Which Christianity Has Played In Modern English Thought. The Book Is Unusual In Its Concentration On Argument. Cowling Relates Christian Argument To Secular Argument And Secular Argument To Christian Argument, Discussing Tractarianism And Ultramontanism In The Context Of Secular Humanism And Pessimistic Illusionlessness, And Vice Versa. The Roles Of Science And History Are Discussed. 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. -- Publisher's Description. Volume Three: The Concluding Volume Of Maurice Cowling's Magisterial Sequence Examines Three Related Strands Of Thought--latitudinarianism, The Christian Thought That Has Assumed That Latitudinarianism Gives Away Too Much, And The Post-christian Thought That Has Assumed That Christianity Is Irrelevant Or Anachronistic. Cowling Conducts His Argument Through A Series Of Encounters With Individual Thinkers, Including Burke, Disraeli, The Arnolds, And Tennyson In The First Half, And Darwin, Keynes, Orwell And Leavis In The Second. -- Publisher's Description. V. 1. [without Special Title] -- V. 2. Assaults -- V. 3. Accommodations. Maurice Cowling. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. In this volume Maurice Cowling makes a further contribution to understanding the role which Christianity has played in modern English thought, showing 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.