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In this wide-ranging book, William Gibson examines the principal themes in the developing relationship between the churches, the state and society between 1760 and 1850. Among other issues this book examines the involvement of the Church of England in Politics, the development of a clerical profession, the work of the bishops and clergy, the economic position of the church, the Church's reaction to the French and American Revolutions, the exercise of Church Patronage by premiers, the development of Church parties, the growth of Toleration, the reaction of the churches to industrialisation, the Halevy debate, the reform of the church after 1830, the development of Nonconformity and the state of religion and social groups in 1850.
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William Gibson
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William Gibson is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford Brookes University and Director of the Oxford Center for Methodism and Church History, Oxford, England. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
