Debating the Faith: Religion and Letter Writing in Great Britain, 1550-1800

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 3 Thomas Browne, the Quakers, and a Letter from a Judicious Friend

Chapter 4 Writing Authority in the Interregnum: The Pastoral Letters of Richard Baxter

Chapter 5 Letters and Records of the Dissenting Congregations: David Crosley, Cripplegate and Baptist Church Life

Chapter 6 ‘For the Greater Glory’: Irish Jesuit Letters and the Irish Counter-Reformation, 1598–1626

Chapter 7 Negotiating Catholic Kingship for a Protestant People: ‘Private’ Letters, Royal Declarations and the Achievement of Religious Detente in the Jacobite Underground, 1702–1718

Chapter 8 ‘Every Time I Receive a Letter from You It Gives Me New Vigour’: The Correspondence of the Scalan Masters, 1762–1783

Chapter 9 Utopian Intelligences: Scientific Correspondence and Christian Virtuosos

Chapter 10 Debating the Faith: Damaris Masham (1658–1708) and Religious Controversy

Chapter 11 Evangelical Calvinists Versus the Hutcheson Circle: Debating the Faith in Scotland, 1738–1739

Chapter 12 Questioning Church Doctrine in Private Correspondence in the Eighteenth Century: Jean Bouhier’s Doubts Concerning the Soul