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

1. Introduction
Gary Schneider

2. Scribal Networks and Sustainers in Protestant Martyrology
Mark Greengrass

3. Thomas Browne, the Quakers, and a Letter from a Judicious Friend
Reid Barbour

4. Writing Authority in the Interregnum: The Pastoral Letters of Richard Baxter
Alison Searle

5. Letters and Records of the Dissenting Congregations: David Crosley, Cripplegate and Baptist Church Life
Anne Dunan-Page

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

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

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

9. Utopian Intelligences: Scientific Correspondence and Christian Virtuosos
Claire Preston

10. Debating the Faith: Damaris Masham (1658–1708) and Religious Controversy
Sarah Hutton

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

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

Keywords: Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Religious Studies, History of Science