Includes bibliographical references and index.

Frontcover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Dates -- Introduction: Hanoverian Civil Religion and its Intellectual Resources -- 1. Building Athens from Jerusalem: Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury -- 2. The Politics of Priestcraft: John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon -- 3. The Church-State Alliance: Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke, and William Warburton -- 4. The Civil Faith of Common Sense: David Hume -- 5. The Legacy of Ancient Rome: Edward Gibbon and Conyers Middleton

6. Subscription, Reform, and Dissent: Civil Religion and Enlightened Divinity during the Late Eighteenth Century -- Conclusion: Hanoverian Civil Religion and its Aftermath -- Bibliography -- Index

This innovative book reveals how Enlightened writers in England, both lay and clerical, proclaimed public support for Christianity by transforming it into a civil religion, despite the famous claim of Jean-Jacques Rousseau that Christians professed an uncivil faith.

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