• Puritanism and Commonwealth period
• The Salters Hall and Trinitarian
Controversies, Arian movement in Dissent
• The Arian movement in the Church of England
• Subscription Controversy within Church of England leading to
secession of Theophilus Lindsey
• The Rise of Organised Unitarianism
• The Unitarian Controversy 1825-1844
• The Priestley-Martineau transition
Puritanism and Commonwealth period
Bolam,
C.G. and Goring, Jeremy ‘English Presbyterian beginnings’ Bolam,
C.G. and others The English
Presbyterians: from Elizabethan puritanism to modern
Unitarianism (London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd,
1968) pp.29-46
Burgess, Walter
H. ed. ‘A document by a
member [Thomas Brewer 1620] of the Pilgrim Fathers’ Church nor
first published’ TUHS 2:2
(1920) 44-48
Surman,
Charles E. ‘The Presbyterian Classical
system 1646-1660’ TUHS 10:4
(1954) 193-202
Williams, J. Arnold ‘The
Persecution
Bolam,
C. Gordon ‘The Ejection of 1662 and its
consequences for the Presbyterians in
Bolam,
C.G. and Goring, Jeremy ‘Presbyterians in separation: the cataclysm’ Bolam, C.G. and others The
English Presbyterians: from Elizabethan puritanism to
modern Unitarianism (London, George Allen and Unwin
Ltd, 1968) pp.73-92
Caplan,
N. ‘The numerical strength of nonconformity 1669-76;
Goring, Jeremy ‘Some neglected aspects of the Great
Ejection of 1662’ TUHS 13:1 (1963)1-8
Kenworthy,
Fred ‘From authority to freedom in church life: the
Act of Uniformity and Unitarian dissent’
TUHS 12:4 (1962) 141-154
Nuttall,
Geoffrey; Thomas, Roger, Whitehorn, R. D.: Short,
Harry Lismer The
Beginnings of Nonconformity
(London, James Clarke
and Co, 1964) [The Hibbert Lectures]
Short, Harry Lismer ‘The great ejection and its
consequences’ Commemorating the ‘Great
Ejection’ 1662-1962 (Midland Union
of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, 1962) pp.18-26
Thomas, Roger ‘Presbyterians,
Congregationals and the Test and Corporation Acts’ TUHS
11:4 (1958) 117-127
Thomas, Roger ‘A
1686 indulgence and its licences’ TUHS 12:1 (1959) 41-42
Thomas,
Roger ‘Comprehension and indulgence’ in Geoffrey Nuttall
and Owen Chadwick From uniformity to
unity 1662-1962 (London, SPCK, 1962) pp.
Thomas, Roger
‘The rise of the reconcilers’ Bolam, C.G. and others The English Presbyterians: from Elizabethan puritanism to modern Unitarianism (London,
George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1968) pp.46-72
Turner, G. Lyon Original records of early Nonconformity
under persecution and indulgence 3 volumes (London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1911)
Wykes,
David L. 'Religious Dissent and the penal laws: an explanation of business
success?' History 75 (1990)
Wykes,
David L. ‘James II’s religious indulgence of 1687 and
the early organisation of Dissenters: the building of
the first nonconformist meeting house in
covers
most of
Wykes,
David L. '"To let the memory of these men dye is injurious to
posterity": Edmund Calamy's Account of the Ejected ministers' in Swanson, R. N. ed The Church retrospective (Boydell Press for The Ecclesiastical History Society, 1997)
[Studies in Church History 33]
Toleration
‘A list of West
Country divines [Exeter Assembly 1731]’ TUHS 2:3 (1921) 109-111
‘List of
Barlow, Richard Burgess Citizenship and
conscience: a study in the theory and practice of religious toleration in the
eighteenth century (Oxford University Press, 1965)
Gordon, Alexander
Freedom after Ejection: a review
(1690-1692) of Presbyterian and Congregational Nonconformity in
a
county survey of the early years of Nonconformity following the ‘Toleration
Act’ (1689). The volume has a very useful biographical and place index.
Gordon, Alexander
Cheshire Classis Minutes 1691-1745 (London, The Chiswick
Press, 1919)
contains
a very useful biographical index
Gordon, Alexander
‘English Presbyterianism’ Christian Life
(15 December 1888) 597
Gordon’s disputed
thesis re English Presbyterian polity
Goring, Jeremy
‘Calvinism in decline’ Hibbert Journal
60:3 (April 1962) 184-195
Holt, Anne ‘Minutes of the
Kenworthy,
Fred ‘The Toleration Act of 1689’ TUHS
7:1 (1939) 18-30
Micklewright,
F. H. Amphlett ‘A footnote to the Happy Union on
1690’ TUHS 8:1 (1943) 27-34
Mullett,
C. F. ‘The legal
position of English Protestant Dissenters. 1689-1767’ Virginia Law Review 22 (1936) 397-398
Nuttall,
Geoffrey F. ‘“The sun-shine of liberty”:
the Toleration Act and the ministry’ The
journal of the United Reformed Church History Society 4:4
(June 1989) 239-255
Ramsbottom,
John D. ‘Presbyterians and ‘partial conformity’ in
the Restoration Church of England’ Journal
of Ecclesiastical History
43:2 (April 1992) 249-270
Short, Harry Lismer ‘The gesture of the minister at the
Lord’s Supper [Macclesfield] TUHS 9:1 (1947) 28-34
Stromberg, R. N.. Religious
liberalism in eighteenth century
Surman,
Charles E. ‘[Letters of London
Presbyterian ministers’] TUHS 9:4 (1950) 222-225
Thomas, Roger ‘A
curious discrepancy in the Heads of Agreement, 1691’ TUHS 10:3
(1953) 173
Thomas, Roger
‘The difference between Congregational and Presbyterian in the chapel building
age’ Studies in the Puritan tradition (Congregational and
Presbyterian Historical Societies, 1964) pp. 28-40
Thomas, Roger
‘Parties in nonconformity’ Bolam, C.G. and others The English Presbyterians: from Elizabethan puritanism to modern Unitarianism (London, George Allen
and Unwin Ltd, 1968) pp.93-112
Toulmin,
Joshua An historical view of the state of
Protestant Dissenters in
covers
the period 1689-1702. Includes as appendices 1. text of ‘Heads of Agreement’ and 2. biographical
details of students at early Dissenting Academies
Williams, George Hunston ‘ The
religious background of the idea of a loyal opposition’ Robertson, D. B. ed. Voluntary Associations (Richmond, 1966) pp. 55-89, 402-8
Wykes,
David L. ‘“The settling of meetings and the preaching of the Gospel” the
development of the Dissenting interest 1690-1715’ The Journal of the United Reformed Church History Society 5:3
(October 1993) 127-145
Wykes,
David L. 'The Tercentenary of the Toleration Act of 1689: a cause for
celebration?' in Furcha, E. J. Papers from the 1989 international symposium on truth and tolerance,
McGill University [ARC Supplement 4, Faculty of Rligious
Studies, McGill University] (Montreal, 1990)
Wykes,
David L. ‘After the Happy Union: Presbyterians and Independents in the
Provinces’ in Swanson, R. N. ed. Unity
and diversity in the church (Oxford, Blackwell’s fopr
the Ecclesiastical History Society, 1996) [Studies in Church History 32]
pp.283-295
The Salters Hall and Trinitarian
Controversies, the Arian movement in Dissent
‘List of west
country divines’ [Exeter Assembly ordinations] TUHS 2:3 (1921)
Brockett, Allan Nonconformity in
Colligan,
J. Hay The Arian movement in
Colligan,
J. Hay ‘English
Presbyterian trust deeds’ The Journal of
the Presbyterian Historical Society
1:2 (May 1915) 52
Davis, T. W. ed. Committee for the repeal of the Test Acts London
Record Society, 1978
Ferguson, J. P. An eighteenth century heretic
: Dr. Samuel Clarke (Kineton, The Roundwood Press, 1976)
Gordon,
Alexander ‘The story of Salters’ Hall’ Addresses biographical
and historical (London, The Lindsey Press, 1922) pp.123-156
Goring,
Jeremy , ‘Calvinism in decline’ Hibbert Journal 60:3 (April 1962) pp.204-211
Griffiths, Olive
.M. Religion and learning: a study of
English Presbyterian thought from the Bartholomew ejections (1662) to the foundation of the
Unitarian movement (
Johansen-Berg, J.
‘Arian or Arminian?’ The Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society of
Nuttall,
Geoffrey ‘Why
did the English Presbyterians become Unitarians?’ Miscellanea Anglo-Belgica (Leiden, Sir Thomas Browne Institute, 1987) pp.7-17
Powicke,
F. J. ‘Arianism and the
Powicke,
F. J. ‘The Salters’
Hall controversy’ Congregational
Historical Society Transactions 7:2 (1916) 110-124
Powicke,
Fred W. ‘Apology for the nonconformist Arians of the 18th century’
TUHS 1:2 (1917) 101-128
Richey, Russell
E. The
origins of English Unitarianism (Princetown
University, unpublished dissertation, 1970; Ann Arbor, University Microfilms)
Richey, Russell
E. ‘Did the English Presbyterians become Unitarian?’ Church History 42 (1973) 58-71
Sell,
Alan P. F. ‘Presbyterianism in eighteenth-century
Sell,
Alan P. F. ‘A little friendly light: the candour of
Bourn,
Samuel Bourn the
younger 1689-1754 , John Taylor 1694-1761, Micaijah Towgood 1700-1792
Sell, Alan P.
F. ‘Arminians,
Deists, and Reason’ Faith and Freedom
33:1 (Autumn 1979) 19-31
Thomas,
Roger ‘Doddridge and liberalism in religion’
Nuttall, Geoffrey F. ed. Philip Doddridge (
Thomas, Roger
‘The Non-Subscription Controversy amongst Dissenters in 1719: the Salters’ Hall Debate” Journal
of Ecclesiastical History 4 (1953) 162-186
Thomas, Roger
‘Presbyterians in transition’ Hibbert Journal 60:3 (April 1962) 195-204 [I have a note that
this was in Historical Jounal not Hibbert Journal]
Thomas, Roger
‘Presbyterians in transition’
Bolam, C.G. and others The English Presbyterians: from Elizabethan puritanism to modern Unitarianism (London, George Allen
and Unwin Ltd, 1968) pp. 113-174
Wiles, Maurice F.
Archetypal heresy: Arianism
through the centuries (Oxford, Calrendon Press,
1996) pp. 134-156[ ‘English Presbyterianism’s
“Insidious tendency to Arianism”]
The Arian movement in the Church of England
Greig, Martin 'The reasonableness of
Christianity? Gilbert Burnet and the Trinitarian controversy of the 1690s' Journal of Ecclesiastical History 44:4
(October 1993) 631-651
Hutton, Sarah 'The neoplatonic roots of Arianism:
Ralph Cudworth and Theophilus
Gale' in Szczucki,
Wiles, Maurice F.
Archetypal heresy: Arianism
through the centuries (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1996) pp. 62-133 [chapter 4
‘The rise and fall of British Arianism’]
Subscription Controversy within Church of England leading to
secession of Theophilus Lindsey
Fitzpatrick,
Martin ‘Latitudinarianism at the parting of the ways? a
suggestion’ Walsh, John Haydon, Colin and
Taylor, Steven eds. The Church of England c.1689-c.1833 from Toleration to Tractarianism
(Cambridge University Press, 1993) pp.209-227
about
the case of Archdeacon Blackburne
Stephens, John
‘The London ministers and subscription 1772-1779’Enlightenment and Dissent 1
(1982) 43-72
Rational Dissent
Ditchfield,
Grayson M. 'Some aspects of Unitarianism and radicalism, 1760-1810'
(unpublished Ph. D
thesis,
Ditchfield,
Grayson M. 'The Parliamentary struggle over the repeal of the Test and
Corporation Acts, 1787-1790' English
Historical Review 89 (1974) 551-57
Ditchfield,
Grayson M. ‘Dissent and toleration: Lord Stanhope’s Bill of 1789’ Journal of Ecclesiastical History 29
(1978) 57-59
Ditchfield,
Grayson M. 'Unitarians and philanthropy
1760-1810' TUHS 21:4 (1998) 254-268
Ditchfield,
Grayson M. 'English Rational Dissent and
philanthropy, c. 1760-c.1810' in Cunningham, Hugh and Innes,
Joanna ed.s Charity,
philanthropy and reform: from the 1690s to 1850 (Macmillan, forthcoming)
Ditchfield,
Grayson M. ‘Incompatible with the very
name of Christian’: English Catholics and Unitarians in the age of Milner’ Recusant History 25:1 (May 2000) 53-73
Donnelly, F. K. ‘
Fitzpatrick,
Martin 'Rational Dissent in the late eighteenth century with particular
reference to the growth of toleration ' (Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University
College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1982)
Fitzpatrick, Martin
‘Rational Dissent and the Enlightenment’ Faith
and Freedom 38:2 (Summer 1985) 83-101
Fitzpatrick,
Martin ‘Varieties of candour: English and Scottish style’ Enlightenment and Dissent 7 (1988) 35-56
Fitzpatrick,
Martin ‘Heretical religion and radical political ideas in late
eighteenth-century
Fitzpatrick,
Martin 'The enlightenment, politics and some Scottish and English
comparisons' in Haakonssen,
Knud ed. Enlightenment and religion: rational dissent in 18th
century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1996) pp.64-98
Francis, Philip is writing (2000) an
Oxford D. Phil thesis ‘Developments in the Doctrine of God; the politics of
religion in England in the period 1719-1820, with special reference to Thomas Emlyn, Richard Price and Joseph Priestley.
“Basically I am
attempting to identify the social determinants of theology that affected the
English Presbyterians and ask how much of the changes in doctrine were
theological and how much social and political? My supervisor is Ralph Waller.”
Gascoigne, John
'Anglican Latitudinarianism, Rational Dissent and political radicalism in the
late eighteenth century' in Haakonssen, Knud ed. Enlightenment and religion: rational dissent in 18th
century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1996) pp. 219-240 [revision of article in History 1986]
Goring, Jeremy
‘The break-up of the old dissent’ Bolam, C.G. and
others The English Presbyterians: from
Elizabethan puritanism to modern Unitarianism (London,
George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1968) pp.175-218
Haakonssen,
Knud ed. Enlightenment and religion:
rational dissent in 18th century
James, Marion E. Stand fast in liberty: a study of Unitarian
politics in the reign of George III (Ph.D
dissertation, Radcliffe College, 1955) list of
heterodox congregations with their ministers
McCalman,
Iain 'New Jerusalem: prophecy, Dissent and radical culture in
Philp, Mark
‘Rational religion and political radicalism’ Enlightenment and Dissent 4
(1985) 35-46
Prest,
William 'Law, lawyers annd Rational Dissent' in Haakonssen, Knud ed. Enlightenment and religion: rational dissent in 18th
century
Saunders, Alan
'The state as highwayman: from candour to rights' in Haakonssen, Knud ed. Enlightenment and religion: rational dissent in 18th
century
Seed, John The role of Unitarianism in the formation of
liberal culture, 1755-1851: a social history (University
of Hull, unpublished Ph. D thesis, 1981)
Seed, John
‘Gentlemen Dissenters: the social and political meanings of Rational Dissent in
the 1770s and 1780s’ The Historical
Journal 28:2 (1985) 299-325
Seed, John
‘Theologies of power: Unitarianism and the social relations of religious
discourse, 1800-1850’ R. J.. Morris ed. Class, power and social structure in British
nineteenth-century towns (Leicester University Press, 1986) pp. 108-56
Seed, John '"A set of
men powerful in many things": Rational Dissent and political opposition in
Stewart M. A.
(Sandy) 'Rational Dissent in eraly eighteenth-century
Ireland' in Haakonssen, Knud ed. Enlightenment and religion: rational dissent in 18th
century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1996) pp.42-63
Tapper,
Alan 'Priestley in politics, progress and moral theology' in Haakonssen, Knud ed. Enlightenment and religion:
rational dissent in 18th century
Thomas, D. O.
‘Rational Dissent and the foundations of liberalism’ Faith and Freedom 39:1 (Spring 1986) 14-23
Waterman, A. M.
C. 'The nexus between theology and political doctrine in Church and Dissent' in Haakonssen, Knud ed. Enlightenment and religion: rational dissent in 18th
century
Webb, Robert K.
'The emergence of Rational Dissent' Haakonssen, Knud ed. Enlightenment and religion:
rational dissent in 18th century
Webb, Robert K.
'Rational Piety' in Haakonssen, Knud
ed. Enlightenment and religion: rational dissent in 18th
century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1996) pp.287-312
Wykes,
David 'The contribution of The Dissenting Academy to the emergence of Rational
Dissent' in Haakonssen, Knud ed. Enlightenment and religion:
rational dissent in 18th century
The Rise of Organised Unitarianism
Ditchfield,
Grayson M. ‘A Unitarian view of English Dissent in 1807’ TUHS 18:2 (April 1984) 1-16
Ditchfield,
Grayson M. ‘Anti-trinitarianism and toleration in
late eighteenth century British politics: the Unitarian petition of 1792’ Journal of Ecclesiastical History 42
(1991) 39-67
Ditchfield,
Grayson M. ‘Public and Parliamentary support for the Unitarian petition of 1792’ Enlightenment and
Dissent 12 (1993) 28-48
Short, Harry Lismer ‘Presbyterians under a newname:
from Presbyterian to Unitarian’ Bolam, C.G.
and others The English Presbyterians:
from Elizabethan puritanism to modern Unitarianism (London,
George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1968) pp.219-235
Webb, Robert K.
‘The Unitarian background’ in Smith, Barbara ed. Truth, liberty, religion: essays celebrating two hundred years of
Manchester College (Oxford, Manchester College, 1986) pp. 1-30
Wright, Richard A review of the missionary life and labours of Richard Wright written by himself (London,
D. Eaton, 1824)
The Unitarian Controversy 1825-1844
Parliamentary debates on the Dissenters’ Chapels Bill 7
& 8 Vict.
‘Petition to
Parliament promoted by the Kent and Sussex Unitarian Association, 1833’ TUHS
6:1 (1935) 72-73
[Hadfield, George]The
Written
from the anti-Unitarian position. An appendix
lists chapels where it is claimed that orthodox endowments have been
appropriated by Unitarians
Hankinson,
James, T. S. The history of the litigation and legislation respecting
Presbyterian Chapels and Charities in
Written and
compiled from an orthodox viewpoint. Contains Jo list of
Nonconformist congregations between 1717 and 1729. see
also John Creasy Index to the John Evans
List of Dissenting Congregations and Ministers in Dr. Williams’s Library (1964)
Long, Arthur J.
‘What did Mr. Gladstone say in 1844 - the Dissenters’ Chapels Act after 150 years’ TUHS 20:4 (1994) 233-257; 21:1 (1995) 43-55
Long, Arthur J. The Lady Hewley
Dispute 1830-42 (York, St. Saviourgate Unitarian
Chapel, 1989)
McLachlan,
Herbert ‘
Montgomery, R. Mortimer ‘The significance of the Dissenters
Chapels Act of 1844’ TUHS 8:2 (1944) 45-51
Schulman,
Frank ‘From tolerance to liberty: the
Trinity Act to the Dissenters’ Chapels Act of 1844’ Faith and Freedom 48:2 (Autumn and Winter 1994) 123-132
Schulman, Frank ‘Blasphemous and
wicked’ - the Unitarian struggle for equality, 1813-1844 (Oxford, Harris
Manchester College, 1997)
Schulman, Jacob
Frank The Anti-Trinitarian struggle for equality
1813-1844 [D. Phil.,
Sellers, Ian ‘The Risley case’
TUHS 16:4 (1978) 176-187
Short, Harry Lismer ‘Presbyterians under a newname:
theological controversies’
Bolam, C.G. and others The English Presbyterians: from Elizabethan puritanism to modern Unitarianism (London, George Allen
and Unwin Ltd, 1968) pp.235-252
Short, K. R. M. ‘
Tindall,
Philip Noble ‘Roman
Catholics and Unitarians: an account of reciprocal help and comfort ’ TUHS 20:3
(1993) 177-186; 20:4 (1994) 235-252
Waller, Ralph ‘The
Wicksteed,
Charles ‘The
Whittaker, William ‘The
open-trust myth’ TUHS 1:3
(1918) 303-314
The Priestley-Martineau transition
Boggs, W. Arthur ‘Without
dogma, without creed, English Unitarianism during the first two thirds of the
nineteenth century’ TUHS 13:4 (1966) 141-154 [includes
bibliography of sermons preached before the B & FUA] [also published in Crane Review 6:3 (1964) 135-142]
Short,
Harry Lismer. ‘Priestley
and Martineau’ Hibbert Journal 60:3 (April 1962) pp.211-219
Webb, Robert K.
‘The faith of nineteenth-century Unitarians: a curious incident’ Helmstadter, Richard J. and Lightman,
Bernard Victorian faith in crisis: essay
in continuity and change in nineteenth century religious belief (London,
Macmillan, 1990) pp.187-222
Nineteenth Century
Morris, R.
J. ‘The Unitarian view of fifteen
periodicals in 1834’ Victorian
periodicals review 18 (1972) 31-2
Short, Harry Lismer ‘Presbyterians under a newname:
the age of Martineau’ Bolam,
C.G. and others The English
Presbyterians: from Elizabethan puritanism to modern
Unitarianism (London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd,
1968) pp.252-274
Webb, Robert
K. ‘Views of Unitarianism from Halley’s
comet [1835-1910]’ TUHS 18:4 (1986) 180-195
Webb, Robert K. 'The limits of religious liberty: theology and criticism in
nineteenth-century
Twentieth Century
‘Roll of Honour
[World War 1]’ TUHS 2:4 (1922) 167
War memorial
[World War 1 at Essex Hall] TUHS 2:3
(1921) 112-114
Foy Society Survey
Group A census of Unitarian congregations
in
Head, Geoffrey Unitarianism in
Mellone,
Sydney Herbert Unitarian Christianity in
the twentieth century (London, Lindsey Press, 1951)
Sellers, Ian ‘The
Pro-Boer movement in
Short, Harry Lismer ‘Presbyterians under a newname:
the later story’ Bolam, C.G. and others The English Presbyterians: from Elizabethan puritanism
to modern Unitarianism (London, George Allen and Unwin
Ltd, 1968) pp.274-286
Tayler,
Robert From heaven to hell and back again : an
autobiography (Peter Teyler, Croydon, c. 1990]