By Brent S. Sirota
ISBN-10: 0300167105
ISBN-13: 9780300167108
This unique and persuasive booklet examines the ethical and spiritual revival led via the Church of britain earlier than and after the wonderful Revolution, and exhibits how that revival laid the foundation for a burgeoning civil society in Britain. After outlining the Church of England's key position within the elevate of voluntary, charitable, and spiritual societies, Brent Sirota examines how those teams drove the modernization of england via such actions as settling immigrants in the course of the empire, founding charity colleges, dispensing devotional literature, and evangelizing and instructing retailers, seamen, and slaves in the course of the British empire—all resulting in what has been termed the “age of benevolence.”
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