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Pietro Giannone and the Nonjuring Contribution to the Separation of Church and State

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Abstract

Why did the English Nonjuror Richard Rawlinson promote the 1729–30 English translation of Pietro Giannone's Civil History of Naples? The Nonjurors in England espoused ecclesiastical independency from the state, which they derived from the thought of Restoration High Churchmen and from the French Gallican Louis Ellies Du Pin. Giannone, a Neapolitan lawyer, proposed a similar “two powers” model of strict autonomy for both church and state. Giannone's concept was later rejected by enlightened writers like Viscount Bolingbroke and Edward Gibbon, who associated it with high church prejudices. It was defended by the Dissenter Joseph Priestley, who combined it with his own theory of religious sociability. The impact of Giannone on the Nonjurors and on Priestley illuminates the complex religious background to what is often seen as a fundamentally secular doctrine: the separation of church and state.

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Journal of British Studies , Volume 59 , Issue 4 , October 2020 , pp. 713 - 736
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80 He was nonetheless accused of this by William Wake in The Authority of Christian Princes Over their Ecclesiastical Synods Asserted (London, 1697). See also William Wake, An Appeal to All True Members of the Church of England, In Behalf of the King's Ecclesiastical Supremacy (London, 1697), 22; [Francis Atterbury] The Rights, Powers and Priviledges of an English Convocation, Stated and Vindicated (London, 1700).

81 David Parrish, Jacobitism and Anti-Jacobitism in the British Atlantic World, 1688–1727 (Woodbridge, 2017), chap. 4. Marston was defended by Daniel Defoe in The Case of Protestant Dissenters in Carolina (London, 1706), 57–67.

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91 Giannone, Istoria Civile, 1:47-52.

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93 The Nonjuror Charles Leslie translated the Four Articles into English in 1702: [Charles Leslie], The Case of the Regale and of the Pontificat Stated (London, 1702).

94 Louis Ellies Du Pin, Traité de la Puissance Ecclésiastique et Temporelle (n.p., 1707), 3.

95 Andrew Starkie, The Church of England and the Bangorian Controversy, 1716–21 (Woodbridge, 2007); William Gibson, Enlightened Prelate: Bishop Benjamin Hoadly, 1676–1761 (Cambridge, 2004), chap. 5; Benjamin Hoadly, A Preservative Against the Principles and Practices of the Nonjurors, Both in Church and State (London, 1716).

96 Thomas Brett, The Independency of the Church Upon the State As to Its Pure Spiritual Powers (London, 1717), 14.

97 [Matthias Earbery Sr.], The Old English Constitution Vindicated (London, 1717), 86–87; Starkie, Church of England, chap. 4.

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99 Broxap, Later Nonjurors, 326–27.

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101 William Warburton, The Alliance between Church and State (London, 1736).

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104 Quoted in Skinner, Ecclesiastical History, 2:643

105 For the virtual schism over independency in the diocese of Aberdeen, see Anthony Aufrère, ed., The Lockhart Papers, 2 vols. (London, 1817), 2:101–2, 123–24. For intellectual parallels between Scotland and Naples, see John Robertson, The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples, 1680–1760 (Cambridge, 2005).

106 Bruce E. Steiner, Samuel Seabury: A Study in the High Church Tradition (Athens, OH, 1971), 196–97, 417–23; Ross N. Hebb, Samuel Seabury and Charles Inglis: Two Bishops, Two Churches (Cranbury, 2010), 63; but see Nora Rhoden, Revolutionary Anglicanism: The Colonial Church of England Clergy during the American Revolution (Basingstoke, 1999), 144–45.

107 See Walter McIntosh Merrill, From Statesman to Philosopher: A Study in Bolingbroke's Deism (New York, 1950).

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109 Bolingbroke, “Concerning authority,” 3:243–44.

110 Bolingbroke, 3:246–7.

111 Bolingbroke, 3:180, 182.

112 Bolingbroke, 3:330.

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114 Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 2nd ed., 3 vols. (London, 1781), 2:222n111; Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 3rd ed., 12 vols. (London, 1788–9), 5:104n30.

115 Edward Gibbon, Memoirs of My Life, ed. Betty Radice (London, 1991), 102.

116 Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volume the First (London, 1776), 526–27.

117 Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall (1776), 1:546–50.

118 Henry Edwards Davis, An Examination of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Chapters of Mr. Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (London, 1778), 132–36, 205–64; David Womersley, Gibbon and the “Watchmen of the Holy City”: The Historian and His Reputation, 1776–1815 (Oxford, 2002), 43–99, 112–16. Henry Dodwell's essay “De Martyrum Paucitate” appears in his Dissertationes Cyprianicae ([Oxford, 1682]), 56–90. Gibbon replied to Davis's accusation of plagiarism in A Vindication of Some Passages in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Chapters of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (London, 1779), 89–90.

119 Gibbon, Decline and Fall (1781), 2:213.

120 Fruchtman, Jack Jr., “The Apocalyptic Politics of Richard Price and Joseph Priestley: A Study in Late Eighteenth Century English Republican Millennialism,” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 73, no. 4 (1983): 1–125CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Garrett, Clarke, “Joseph Priestley, the Millennium and the French Revolution,” Journal of the History of Ideas 34, no. 1 (1973): 53–66CrossRefGoogle Scholar. See also Isabel Rivers and David L. Wyckes, eds., Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher and Theologian (Oxford, 2008); Robert Schofield, The Enlightened Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work from 1773 to 1804 (University Park, PA, 2004); Jan Golinski, Science as Public Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760–1820 (Cambridge, 1992), chap. 3.

121 Joseph Priestley, An Essay on the First Principles of Government, and on the Nature of Political, Civil and Religious Liberty, 2nd ed. (London, 1771), 141, 149–51, 156–58. This book inspired Jeremy Bentham's call for separation of church and state; see Canovan, Margaret, “The Un-Benthamite Utilitarianism of Joseph Priestley,” Journal of the History of Ideas 45, no. 3 (1984): 435–50CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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123 Priestley, Considerations on Church-Authority, vii.

124 Priestley, 24.

125 Priestley, 29–30.

126 Priestley, 73.

127 Joseph Priestley, An History of the Corruptions of Christianity, 2 vols. (London, 1782), 1:xvii. For its impact, see F. C. Mather, High-Church Prophet: Bishop Samuel Horsley (1733–1806) and the Caroline Tradition in the Later Georgian Church (Oxford, 1992), 55–61.

128 [Jacob Vernet], Anecdotes Ecclésiastiques [. . .] Tirées de l'Histoire du Royaume de Naples, de Giannone (Amsterdam, 1738). Priestley also read Giannone in Italian: John Towill Rutt, ed., Life and Correspondence of Joseph Priestley, 2 vols. (London, 1832), 2:337.

129 Pietro Giannone, Il Triregno, in Bertelli and Ricuperati, Opere di Pietro Giannone, 593–653.

130 Priestley, Corruptions of Christianity, 2:441–66, at 462.

131 Priestley had a further spat with Gibbon over the immortality of the soul; see Joseph Priestley, Discourses on the Evidence of Revealed Religion (London, 1794), 412–20; Turnbull, Paul, “Gibbon's Exchange with Joseph Priestley,” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 14, no. 2 (1991): 139–58Google Scholar; Womersley, Gibbon and the Watchmen, 157–58.

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134 Daniel Dreisbach, Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation between Church and State (New York, 2002), 79–82.

135 James Burgh, Crito, or Essays on Various Subjects, 2 vols. (London, 1767), 2:119.

136 Burgh, Crito, 1:xi.

137 Joseph Priestley, A General History of the Christian Church, from the Fall of the Empire to the Present Time, 4 vols. (Northumberland, PA, 1802–5), 1:xix–xx, xxxviii; Rutt, Life and Correspondence of Priestley, 2:348. For copies of Ogilvie's translation in American public libraries, see A Catalogue of Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1741), 12; Laws of the Redwood-Library Company (Newport, 1764), 4.

138 Joseph Priestley, A General History of the Christian Church to the Fall of the Western Empire, 2nd ed., 2 vols. (Northumberland, PA, 1803), 1:x.

139 Priestley, General History, 4:323; quotation at 329.

140 Priestley, 1:sig a2.

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