High Church Prophet

Abstract

Abstract Though he never attained the highest office in the Church of England, Samuel Horsley was the ablest bishop on the bench in the late 18th century. He was a scientist, parliamentarian, and man of letters, as well as a leading theologian and diocesan administrator; while his venomous opposition to popular politics at the time of the French Revolution earned him the label 'Grand Mufti'. This book's biography provides a portrait of Horsley and the Church of England in an age of intellectual, social, and political revolution. It establishes Horsley as a High Churchman, who bridged the gap between the Tory fanaticism of Atterbury and Sacheverell and the apostolic vision of the Tractarians. This book challenges belief in the predominance of latitudinarianism in the 18th-century church, and throws new light on the workings of church-state relations.

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