"Religion, Reform, and Modernity in the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Seck" by Bob Tennant

Religion in the Age of Enlightenment

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Religion, Reform, and Modernity in the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Secker and the Church of England: Book Review

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Review, Age of Enlightenment, Religion

Abstract

Thomas Secker was born in 1693 into a Dissenting family, joined the Church of England in his early twenties, and ultimately served as Archbishop of Canterbury, from 1758 until his death in 1768-the last one to head the communion in an undivided Anglophone political community. Robert Ingram has produced an impressively organized account of his personal and, especially public, life with an unprecedented breadth of research and reading. He has also done it with an obvious, indeed, self-confessed, enthusiasm for his subject and in a free-flowing (though sometimes disconcertingly breezy) style that is a pleasure to read, although the prose is somewhat marred by poor editing and a tendency toward repetitiousness, which should have been eliminated.

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Tennant, Bob (2009) "Religion, Reform, and Modernity in the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Secker and the Church of England: Book Review," Religion in the Age of Enlightenment: Vol. 1, Article 17.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/rae/vol1/iss1/17

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