Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England

In Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England Maurice Cowling defines the principles according to which the intellectual history of modern England should be written and argue that the history of Christianity is of primary importance. In this volume which is self-contained he makes a further contribution to understanding the role which Christianity has played in modern English thought. There are critical accounts of the thought of Toynbee T. S. Eliot Collingwood Butterfield Oakeshott David Knowles Evelyn Waugh and Churchill. It also contains less extended accounts of the thought of A. N. Whitehead of Enoch Powell Minister. The book is given coherence by the connected ideas of the ubiquity of religion of literature as an instrument of religious indoctrination and of the intimacy of the connections between the political philosophical literary and religious assumptions that are to be found among the leaders of the English intelligentsia.