Lay Activism and the High Church Movement of the Late Eighteenth Century : The Life and Thought of William Stevens, 1732-1807.

Intro -- Lay Activism and the High Church Movement of the Late Eighteenth Century: The Life and Thought of William Stevens, 1732-1807 -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Park's Memoirs -- Structure and Contents -- 1: Contexts: High Churchmanship and the Lay Precedent -- High Churchmanship: A Definition -- The Problem of Terminology -- High Churchmanship in Recent Scholarship -- Lay Activism in High Churchmanship: The Concept -- Lay Precedents -- Selected Biographical Sketches -- Robert Filmer (1588-1653) -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- John Evelyn (1620-1706) -- The Nonjurors and Robert Nelson (1656-1715) -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) -- Edmund Burke (1730-1797) -- A Forgotten Phenomenon: High Church Women -- Evangelical Lay Activists -- Conclusion -- 2: Background: A Man of Faith and Commerce -- Birth and Early Life -- An Apprentice in a Commercial World -- The Hosiery Trade -- A Pious and Studious Layman -- The Trappings of Commercial Success -- In Partnership with "Moloch the Iron King" -- Conclusion -- 3: Theological Activism (i): The 1770s -- Stevens' Theological Sources -- Hutchinsonianism -- Benjamin Kennicott and the Lettres de M. L'Abbé -- The Attack on the Thirty-nine Articles -- Cursory Observations -- An Ecclesiological Primer: The Treatise -- The Sin of Rebellion: The American Revolution -- A Discourse on the English Constitution -- Strictures on a Sermon -- The Revolution Vindicated and Constitutional Liberty Asserted -- Conclusion -- 4: Theological Activism (ii): 1780s to 1800s -- The 1780s and the Rise of Theological Heterodoxy -- The French Revolution and the Conservative Reaction -- The Society for the Reformation of Principles -- The British Critic -- The Scholar Armed -- The Fallout with the British Critic -- Defending the Legacy of Jones of Nayland.

The Anti-Jacobin Review and the Orthodox Churchman's Magazine -- Defending John Hutchinson -- The High Church Critique of Natural Religion -- Conclusion -- 5: Ecclesiastical Activism -- The Art of Holy Living -- The Church Societies -- Treasurer of Queen Anne's Bounty -- Friends in the Episcopate -- In Aid of the "Poor Scotch Bishops" -- "Nobody" and His Friends -- "Nothing but Death" -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

In Lay Activism and the High Church Movement of the Late Eighteenth Century, Robert M. Andrews presents a biography of the late eighteenth-century High Church layman, William Stevens (1732-1807), elucidating his influence within the High Church movement of his day.

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