Reformation without end offers an entirely new interpretation of the English Reformation. No one in eighteenth-century England thought that they lived during 'the Enlightenment', and instead believed that they still faced the religious, intellectual and political problems unleashed by the Reformation.
This book is about the ways the eighteenth-century English debated the causes and consequences of those seventeenth-century revolutions.

Those living in post-revolutionary England conceived of themselves as living in the midst of the very thing which they thought was the cause of the revolutions: the Reformation. The reasons for, and the legacy of, the Reformation remained hotly debated in post-revolutionary England because the religious and political issues it had generated remained unresolved and that irresolution threatened more civil unrest. For this reason, most books published during the eighteenth century concerned religion. This book looks closely at the careers of four of the eighteenth century's most important polemical divines: Daniel Waterland, Conyers Middleton, Zachary Grey and William Warburton. It references a wide range of manuscript sources, including annotated books and unpublished drafts, to show how eighteenth-century authors crafted and pitched their works.

Reformation without end will be of interest to students and scholars of early modern English religious, intellectual and political history.

Robert G. Ingram is Professor of History at Ohio University

Preface
1 Why then are we still reforming?
Part I: Purity of faith and worship against corruptions: Daniel Waterland
2 Truth is always the same
3 Philosophy-lectures or the Sermon on the Mount: Samuel Clarke and the Trinity
4 Has not reason been abused as well as religion?: Matthew Tindal and the Scriptures
5 The sacrament Socinianized: Benjamin Hoadly and the Eucharist
Part II: The history of the Church be fabulous: Conyers Middleton
6 I know not what to make of the author
7 Conversing...with the ancients: Rome and the Bible
8 Treating me worse, than I deserved: heterodoxy and the politics of patronage
9 Flood of resentment: assailing the primitive Church
Part III: Neither Jacobite, nor republican, Presbyterian, nor papist: Zachary Grey
10 Popery in its proper colours
11 Factions, seditions and schismatical principles: Puritans and Dissenters
12 The religion of the first ages: primitivism and the primitive Church
13 None of us are born free: self-restraint and salvation
Part IV: The abuses of fanaticism: William Warburton
14 The incendiaries of sedition and confusion
15 Neither a slave nor a tyrant: Church and state reimagined
16 The triumph of Christ over Julian: prodigies, miracles and providence
17 A due degree of zeal: enthusiasm and Methodism
Conclusion
Index