Enlightenment Prelate

William Gibson, DLitt is Head of the Faculty of Arts at Basingstoke College of Technology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Arts. In 2004 he was made Academic Director for Lifelong Learning at Oxford Brookes University. He has written widely on the post-Restoration Church and society, his most recent books being The Church of England 1688-1832: Unity and Accord (2001) and Religion and Society in England and Wales, 1689-1832 (1998).

• Foreword by James E Bradley; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Hero and Villain; The Old Whigs and New Whigs; Hoadly the Lightening Rod; Vitriol and Venom; Recent Revision; The American Hoadly; Hoadly and the Enlightenment; Early Life 1676-1701; A Puritan Inheritance; Education; Locke and Rationalism; Marriage and London; Political Apprenticeship in a London Pulpit 1701 - 1710; Toleration and Tranquillity; Occasional Conformity; The Reasonableness of Conformity; Hoadly's Pastoral Leadership; The Authority of Governments; Low Church Leader; Sacheverell Adversity and Triumph 1710-1717; The Original and Institution of Civil Government; Hoadly and Sacheverell; The Image of Hoadly; Hoadly and the 1710 Election; Latitudinarians at Bay; Hoadly's Advancement; The Church Impungned by Hoadly; Hoadly Mitred; The Preservative Against Non-Jurors; The Years of the Bangorian Controversy 1717-21; The Setting; The Sermon; Early Reactions and Snape; Sherlock and the Test; The Sermon and Dissenters; Hoadly and Law; The Censure of Convocation; Hoadly and Sincerity; Bangorian Shockwaves; Hoadly and the Court; Reverberations; The Significance of the Sermon; Hereford and Salisbury 1721-1734; Hoadly and Lady Sundon; Hereford; Britannicus; Salisbury; Hoadly and Patronage; Winchester; Hoadly at Winchester 1734-1761; The Lord's Supper; Hoadly's Family; The Latitudinarian Microcosm; Hoadly the Bishop; The Last Controversy: Fournier; True Greatness; Living Pleasantly; Conclusion; Appendix: Hoadly in Poetry; Extracts from; Savage's The Convocation: A Poem; Amhurst's The Convocation: A Poem; Amhurst's A Congratulatory Epistle from His Holiness the Pope to the Revd Dr Snape; The Protestant Garland in Praise of the most Noble Bishop of Bangor; An Acrostick upon the Great Bishop of Bangor; Hoadly's Prologue to All for Love; The Protestant Session; Strephon's Revenge: A Satire on the Oxford Toasts; Smedley's A Familiar Epistle to the Right Revd Dr Hoadley Lord Bishop of Bangor; Thomas's To The Most Ingenious Mrs Sarah Hoadley Excellent in Painting; The State Weather Cocks; Cooke's Epistle the sixth to the right reverend Dr Benjamin Hoadly on his Being Translated from the Bishopric of Salisbury to Winchester; Akenside's Ode to the Bishop of Winchester; Keate's To the Memory of Dr John Hoadly Chancellor of Winchester Addressed to Richard Vernon Sadleir; Maginn's Miscellanies; References; Bibliography; Index.