-
The Religion of a Lawyer?: William Blackstone's Anglicanism
- Parergon
- Australian and New Zealand Association of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Inc.)
- Volume 21, Number 2, July 2004
- pp. 153-168
- 10.1353/pgn.2004.0031
- Article
- Additional Information
- Purchase/rental options available:
William Blackstone's Anglicanism was neither so intolerantly High Church nor so pragmatically supportive of the socio-political order as recent writers have suggested. Blackstone's views did not remain constant over his life, and while his first published work does display an intense commitment to the Established Church, his later dealings with Dissenters point to the development of a less combative, more eirenic position.