Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Locating the Bangorian controversy
- 2 Religion and the whig schism
- 3 Culture and contention
- 4 The anatomy of the controversy
- 5 Poperies and Reformations
- 6 The hermeneutics of heresy
- 7 The politics of piety
- Conclusion
- Appendix I New pamphlets per month
- Appendix II Pamphlet map of the Bangorian controversy
- Bibliography
- Index
- STUDIES IN MODERN BRITISH RELIGIOUS HISTORY
Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Locating the Bangorian controversy
- 2 Religion and the whig schism
- 3 Culture and contention
- 4 The anatomy of the controversy
- 5 Poperies and Reformations
- 6 The hermeneutics of heresy
- 7 The politics of piety
- Conclusion
- Appendix I New pamphlets per month
- Appendix II Pamphlet map of the Bangorian controversy
- Bibliography
- Index
- STUDIES IN MODERN BRITISH RELIGIOUS HISTORY
Summary
As to the present Uses of such an Account as this to those who being at a Distance from London, have not had Opportunities to know what Tracts have been published, or in what Order, as well as to those nearer, who either have not been at the Pains to take exact Notice, or may not care to charge their Memories with all the Steps in a Dispute so prolix; they are too evident to need insisting upon.
As Thomas Herne's apology for his own labours indicates, the Bangorian controversy has from the beginning required its digesters and commentators. Much of the dispute concerned the question of what the dispute was about: Herne's view that the controversy concerned ‘Protestant Popery’ took a Hoadleian perspective. That view has had its proponents in the intervening years. Henry Hallam, for example, writing in the nineteenth century could confidently maintain that ‘the principles of Hoadley [sic] and his advocates appeared, in the main, little else than those of protestantism and toleration’. Were this actually the case, the dispute would, of course, be inexplicable. To understand the Bangorian controversy at all, one must recognize, as Howard Erskine-Hill has noted, that ‘the eighteenth-century world was not our world’. Most importantly, the present-day scholar must be aware that the meanings annexed to words have not only changed (as Hoadly himself insisted, if somewhat disingenuously), but that their meanings, if apparently settled now, were once disputed, and that those meanings have been settled through a process of political, theological and historical contention.
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- The Church of England and the Bangorian Controversy, 1716–1721 , pp. 188 - 191Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2007