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Fulcrum Subjects: Art and Literature / Anglicanism, General / Poetry Discuss this Article on the Fulcrum Forum See the 2 comments on this article Eminent Anglicans of English Literature A Fulcrum series in partnership with Cambridge University Press
John Donne (1572-1631), poet, preacher and Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), poet, lexicographer, critic, and biographer. S. T. Coleridge(1772-1834), poet, critic, philosopher and theologian. T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), poet, critic, playwright and editor. Cambridge University Press publishes a series: ‘ We shall be republishing on Fulcrum the following essays, with the permission of the authors, editors and publisher: 1. Peter McCullough, ‘Donne as preacher’ in Achsah Guibbory (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to John Donne ( 2. Michael Suarez, S.J., ‘Johnson’s Christian thought’ in Greg Clingham (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson (Cambridge: CUP, 1997), pp. 192-208. 3. Mary Anne Perkins, ‘[S. T. Coleridge:] Religious thinker’ in Lucy Newlyn (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge ( 4. Cleo McNelly Kearns, ‘Religion, literature and society in the work of T. S. Eliot’ in A. David Moody (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot ( Discuss this Article on the Fulcrum Forum Forum Posts About This Article:Posted by: Deleted user 1222 Sunday 12 April 2009 - 04:55pm Coleridge developed in a Unitarianism too early for his romanticism. Early in the nineteenth century it was predominantly denominational and theoretical, and clashed with other denominations. However, like his own personal development, but afterwards, later dominant Unitarianism was both receptive to German biblical criticism (the denominationalists were not - they read their Unitarianism straight off the pages of the New Testament) and romanticist, and James Martineau pursued the idea of the national Church of interest to Coleridge. Whether the later Unitarianism would have held Coleridge is unknown. His adoption of Christianity was such that it tied into Greek ideas, but then so did many Unitarians. These later ones were the most affected by the blasts of the Oxford Movement than any nonconformist denomination. Steeples went up, long front walls became side walls, pulpits were moved to the side, windows acquired colours, written litugies developed in poetic directions. Interesting that he should reject Arianism, in that his ten years as a solid Unitarian was with the Arian crowd that had moved over to Unitarianism to the materialist preachers - the ex-Anglican Theophilus Lindsey - but his rejection of this and Socinian views was a rejection of religious materialism. What Coleridge did, though, was have a big liberal impact in the Anglican Church (as, actually, most Arians did) and some see him as Father of the Broad Church movement. He went that way, like F. D. Maurice, and others went the opposite direction, like Blanco White, F. W. Newman (brother of J. H.) and Stopford Brooke (Queen Victoria's Chaplain-in-Ordinary) became Unitarian without altering his views (under the influence of Martineau). And contributing this here after preaching this Easter Day morning in a Unitarian Church. Someone asked me, "So you believe in life after death then?" "No," I said and, "Couldn't you tell through all the holy smoke?" (in other words, the liturgical and symbolic nature of the material I presented). 
Posted by: Graham Kings
Saturday 11 April 2009 - 10:49pm
We have just published on Fulcrum, 'S. T. Coleridge: Religious Thinker', by Mary Anne Perkins. This is republished, with permission from the author and Cambridge Univeristy Press, from Mary Anne Perkins, ‘[S. T. Coleridge:] Religious thinker’ in Lucy Newlyn (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 187-199. It is the first essay of a new Fulcrum series in partnership with Cambridge University Press, 'Eminent Anglicans of English Literature', which we are publishing over the next four months. The four essays in the Fulcrum series are on the religious views of: John Donne (1572-1631), poet, preacher and Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), poet, lexicographer, critic, and biographer. S. T. Coleridge(1772-1834), poet, critic, philosopher and theologian. T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), poet, critic, playwright and editor. Cambridge University Press publishes a series: ‘Cambridge Companions to Literature’ and the essays are taken from the books on each of these four writers. |
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Over the next four months we shall be republishing, with permission, essays on the religious views of four eminent Anglican writers: