Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- General Editor's preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Townscape and university: topographical change
- 2 The university: its constitution, personnel, and tasks
- 3 Colleges: buildings, masters, and fellows
- 4 Colleges: tutors, bursars, and money
- 5 Mathematics, law, and medicine
- 6 Science and other studies
- 7 Religion in the university: its rituals and significance
- 8 The Orthodox and Latitudinarian traditions, 1700–1800
- 9 Cambridge religion 1780–1840: Evangelicalism
- 10 Cambridge religion: the mid-Victorian years
- 11 The university as a political institution, 1750–1815
- 12 The background to university reform, 1830–1850
- 13 Cambridge and reform, 1815–1870
- 14 The Graham Commission and its aftermath
- 15 The undergraduate experience, I: Philip Yorke and the Wordsworths
- 16 The undergraduate experience, II: Charles Astor Bristed and William Everett
- 17 The undergraduate experience, III: William Thomson
- 18 Games for gownsmen: walking, athletics, boating, and ball games
- 19 Leisure for town and gown: music, debating, and drama
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
8 - The Orthodox and Latitudinarian traditions, 1700–1800
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- General Editor's preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Townscape and university: topographical change
- 2 The university: its constitution, personnel, and tasks
- 3 Colleges: buildings, masters, and fellows
- 4 Colleges: tutors, bursars, and money
- 5 Mathematics, law, and medicine
- 6 Science and other studies
- 7 Religion in the university: its rituals and significance
- 8 The Orthodox and Latitudinarian traditions, 1700–1800
- 9 Cambridge religion 1780–1840: Evangelicalism
- 10 Cambridge religion: the mid-Victorian years
- 11 The university as a political institution, 1750–1815
- 12 The background to university reform, 1830–1850
- 13 Cambridge and reform, 1815–1870
- 14 The Graham Commission and its aftermath
- 15 The undergraduate experience, I: Philip Yorke and the Wordsworths
- 16 The undergraduate experience, II: Charles Astor Bristed and William Everett
- 17 The undergraduate experience, III: William Thomson
- 18 Games for gownsmen: walking, athletics, boating, and ball games
- 19 Leisure for town and gown: music, debating, and drama
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
THE TWO TRADITIONS DEFINED AND COMPARED
His politics are Leviathan, and his religion is Latitudinarian, which is none; that is nothing that is positive, but against every thing, that is positive in other religions; whereby to reduce all religions to an uncertainty, and determinable only by the civil power … He is own'd by the Atheistical wits of all England as their true Primate and Apostle … He leads them not only the length of Socinianism … but to call in question all revelation, to turn Genesis & etc. into a mere romance.
So wrote Charles Leslie in 1695 about John Tillotson, the recently deceased Archbishop of Canterbury. Leslie was one of that minority of Anglicans who felt that their faith was betrayed by those in power in the 1690s, and later. Refusing to take an oath of allegiance to William and Mary (hence the name ‘Non-Jurors’) Leslie and his colleagues remained loyal to the Stuart cause, despite the follies of James II which had so gravely tried their patience. They used the term ‘Latitudinarian’ to describe all they abominated in the Established Church, and the word continued to be employed abusively in the eighteenth century by the Non-Jurors' successors as upholders of firm High Church Anglicanism.
Since Latitudinarianism was especially associated with Cambridge, rather than Oxford, and continues to be associated with the university by historians now, we should pay attention to it.
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- A History of the University of Cambridge , pp. 277 - 313Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997