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Jeremy Gregory has offered us an impeccably researched, meticulously presented, and judicious study of the diocese of Canterbury. The Historical Journal Offers the most comprehensive corrective yet to the bad press given to the eighteenth-century Church ... all serious students of ecclesiastical history from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries [should] take this striking and important new contribution on board. Journal of Ecclesiastical History This is a valuable addition to a growing body of work which is redrawing the eighteenth-century religious landscape. Eamon Duffy, Times Literary Supplement Gregory is particularly good on the greatly increased availability of the rite of confirmation. Eamon Duffy, Times Literary Supplement This is an excellent book, meticulously researched, and adds greatly to our understanding of the clergy in eighteenth-century Church of England. The Journal of Theological Studies It will be essential reading for serious students of the eighteenth-century English church. American Historical Review

`This is a valuable addition to a growing body of work which is redrawing the eighteenth-century religious landscape' Eamon Duffy, Times Literary Supplement `Gregory is particularly good on the greatly increased availability of the rite of confirmation' Eamon Duffy, Times Literary Supplement `It will be essential reading for serious students of the eighteenth-century English church' American Historical Review `self-consciously revisionist one that sets out to contest received notions about stagnation and tepidity in the life of the Church of England' American Historical Review `a paradigm of archival research ... Gregory enters the mind of the eighteenth-century churchman more completely than any previous historian of the period ... By synthesizing archival material from a wide variety of sources Gregory has established a new benchmark in writing the history of the post-Restoration Church, and one that significantly advances our understanding of the Church and society. This book sheds new light on the religious culture of the Church, and reaches beyond a local study to one with important implications for the whole Church. Those studying the Church in the period will find this book indispensable.' William Gibson `a contribution to the study of the Church of England's place in English society between the Restoration and the advent of 'reform' movements in the 1830s.' (J.M.) Contemporary Review, Nov.2000. `The book is also something of a (welcome) defence of the church's 'long eighteenth century' in which it established itself in the life of the nation.' (J.M.) Contemporary Review, Nov. 2000.

Jeremy Gregory has offered us an impeccably researched, meticulously presented, and judicious study of the diocese of Canterbury. The Historical Journal Offers the most comprehensive corrective yet to the bad press given to the eighteenth-century Church ... all serious students of ecclesiastical history from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries [should] take this striking and important new contribution on board. Journal of Ecclesiastical History This is a valuable addition to a growing body of work which is redrawing the eighteenth-century religious landscape. Eamon Duffy, Times Literary Supplement Gregory is particularly good on the greatly increased availability of the rite of confirmation. Eamon Duffy, Times Literary Supplement This is an excellent book, meticulously researched, and adds greatly to our understanding of the clergy in eighteenth-century Church of England. The Journal of Theological Studies It will be essential reading for serious students of the eighteenth-century English church. American Historical Review

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