Author: Rivers, Isabel
Title: Reason, Grace and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England 1660-1780, Volume 1: Whichcote to Wesley
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (2001). reprint. orig.boards. 23x15cm, xiii,277 pp, Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought, 8.. Spine bumped and warped. Some light cover soil. VG. ¶ Contents: The Conflict of Languages in the Mid 17th-Century; The Religion of Reason: The Latitude-Men: The Origins of Latitude; The Polemics & Preaching of the Latitude-Men; The Design of Religion; The Religion of Grace: Baxter, Bunyan & the Nonconformist Reaction: The Nonconformist Spectrum; The Function of the Book; Faith & Holiness; Affectionate Religion: Watts, Doddridge & the Tradition of Old Dissent: The Situatioon of Old Dissent; The Audiences of Watt & Doddridge; The Rhetoric of the Affections; John Wesley & the Language of Scripture, Reason & Experience; Wesley & His Contemporaries; Wesley as Publicist; Faith Working by Love.

Keywords: English Religious Thought, Great Britain, John Wesley, Nonconformism, Nonconformist, History of Religion, Church Latitude-Men, Christian Ethics,