The Book of the Church. Second Edition.
by SOUTHEY (Robert):
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: John Murray..., 1824. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. xxxvii [xxxviii blank, xxxix drop-title, xl blank], 407 [408 blank]; [ii], 511 [512 blank], contemporary polished calf, gilt spines, marbled edges and end-papers; spines slightly worn, but a very good set. From the Easton Neston Library, with library label for shelf mark and the armorial bookplate of Sir Thomas Hesketh, Bart., Rufford Hall Lancashire on the front paste-down end-paper. Geoffrey Carnall in his book Robert Southey and his Age (1960) notes that this attempt to write the lives of the "heroes of our religion" produced an account that "was infected with heresy. In the course of the book he fell foul of several of the Thirty-Nine Articles. He sympathized with Pelagius, an d indirectly attacked St. Paul's teaching on faith. He seemed to think that Romanism would be an excellent religion if it were stripped of its ecclesiastical abuses, and if the popes were men like Fenelon."
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- John Price Antiquarian Books (GB)
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- Title
- The Book of the Church. Second Edition.
- Author
- SOUTHEY (Robert):
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- London: John Murray..., 1824
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- history religion prose
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