Unitarian Radicalism

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The Unitarian confrontation with the late eighteenth-century political establishment is reflected in published sermons, pamphlets and parliamentary debates. Price and Priestley were only the most notorious members of a well-educated, close-knit and highly articulate intellectual opposition, all the more formidable for dominating the major literary reviews. Focusing on many lesser-known dissenting polemicists, this study uncovers unexpected continuities in Unitarian critiques of government policies an questions whether Burke was justified in equating antitrinitarians with French republicans.

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Stuart Andrews

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'In the great debate on the French Revolution, few characters were more vilified than 'Gunpowder Joe', the Unitarian, Joseph Priestley. In this lucid study, Stuart Andrews looks not only at the famous Priestley but at the nation-wide network to which he belonged. He guides us expertly through the Unitarian literature of protest, emphasising the long-standing religious convictions and grievances which fed a political rhetoric which Burke and others dismissed as 'Jacobinical'.' - John Walsh, Jesus College, Oxford.

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