The Church of England in Industrialising Society: The Lancashire Parish of Whalley in the Eighteenth Century

by M.F. Snape

The Church of England in the 18th century is seen as failing its congregation in the industrialising areas; specific issues are set out.

Was the Church of England an ailing or a healthy institution in the eighteenth century? Responding to the slings and arrows of its Victorian critics, ever since the publication in the 1930s of Norman Sykes' Church and State inEngland in the Eighteenth Century, modern scholarship has tended to stress the competence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843830140
• ISBN13: 9781843830146
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"