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  • 4 - Religious Thought: The Defence of Religious Establishment

  • Edited by Frans De Bruyn, University of Ottawa
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Thought
    Published online:
    15 June 2021
    Print publication:
    20 May 2021, pp 131-161

  • Summary

    The debate over the presence and nature of a single established church in England is perhaps the most important religious issue in the long eighteenth century. From the Elizabethan ‘Penal Laws’ designed to suppress Roman Catholicism to the ‘Clarendon Code’, intended to limit the civil participation of Protestant Nonconformists, the history of religious establishment in England reveals patterns of protectionism and exclusion necessary to maintain the privileged position of the Church ‘as by law established’. New ideas in the eighteenth century, such as toleration and deism, as well as the rise of Methodism, challenged but did not overcome this Anglican hegemony.