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

Introduction. - Religion and letter writing, 1550-1800, G. Schneider. - Part I Protestant Identities. - Scribal Networks and sustainers in Protestant martyrology, M. Greengrass. - Thomas Browne, the Quakers, and a Letter from a Judicious Friend, R. Barbour. - Writing authority in the Interregnum: The pastoral letters of Richard Baxter, A. Searle. - Letters and records of the dissenting congregations: David Crosley, Cripplegate and Baptist Church life, A. Dunan-Page. - Part II Representations of British Catholicism. - `For the Greater Glory : Irish Jesuit letters and the Irish Counter-Reformation, 1598-1626, D. Finnegan. - James `III and VIII and Catholic Kingship, 1702-1718, D. Szechi. - Every time I receive a Letter from you it gives me new vigour : The correspondence of Scalan masters, 1762-1783, C. Prunier. - Part III Religion, Science and Philosophy. - Debating the faith: Damaris Masham (1658-1708) and religious controversy, S. Hutton. - Dining out in the Republic of Letters: The rhetoric of scientific correspondence, C. Preston. - Evangelical Calvinists versus the Hutcheson Circle: Debating the faith in Scotland, 1738-1739, J. Moore. - Questioning church doctrine in private correspondence in the eighteenth century: Jean Bouhier s doubts concerning the soul, A. Thomson. - Index.