Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England

The concluding volume of Maurice Cowling''s magisterial sequence examines three related strands of thought--latitudinarianism the Christian thought that has assumed that latitudinarianism gives away too much and the post-Christian thought that has assumed that Christianity is irrelevant or anachronistic. Cowling conducts his argument through a series of encounters with individual thinkers including Burke Disraeli the Arnolds and Tennyson in the first half and Darwin Keynes Orwell and Leavis in the second.