Browsing by Subject "Church of England"
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Astell and Masham on Epistemic Authority and Women's Individual Judgment in Religion
(Oxford University Press, 2022)In 1705, Mary Astell and Damaris Masham both published works advocating for women’s use of individual judgment in matters of religion. Although both philosophers advocate for women’s education and intellectual autonomy, ... -
Devotion and Polemic in Eighteenth-Century England: William Mason and the Literature of Lay Evangelical Anglicanism
(2019)William Mason (1719–1791), an Anglican evangelical layman of Bermondsey, London, published extensively on theological issues to educate the Anglican laity in the Church of England’s Reformed tradition. Despite the ... -
The Reception of Thomas Delaune's Plea for the Non-Conformists in England and America, 1684-1870
(2022)In a 1683 sermon, Benjamin Calamy, an Anglican priest, claimed that the separation of Dissenters from the Church of England was unjustifiable. Thomas Delaune, a London Baptist schoolmaster, responded in A Plea for the ...