Contesting the English Polity, 1660-1688

Mark Goldie is Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College. He has edited or authored 12 books and published more than 60 essays on British political, religious, and intellectual history in the period 1650-1800. Two of his books are published by Boydell and Brewer: The Entring Book of Roger Morrice and Roger Morrice and the Puritan Whigs.

• Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Theory of Royal Sovereignty 2. The Theory of Religious Intolerance 3. The Reception of Thomas Hobbes 4. Danby, the Bishops, and the Whigs 5. Priestcraft and the Birth of Whiggism 6. Toleration and the Godly Prince 7. Toleration and the Huguenots 8. Andrew Marvell's Adversaries 9. Annual Parliaments and Aristocratic Whiggism 10. William Lawrence and the Case for King Monmouth 11. Sir Peter Pett, Sceptical Toryism, and the Science of Toleration 12. The Political Thought of the Anglican Revolution 13. John Locke and Anglican RoyalismIndex

The newly written introduction will be a go-to source for scholars and students to briefly familiarize themselves with the import of ecclesiology in early modern politics. This excellent volume should be of interest to various scholars of religious history and theology-particularly of toleration, restoration literature, and political theory, as well as providing useful historical perspective for the growing number of scholars researching post-secular and post-liberal accounts of contemporary society.