This book is the first systematic historical examination of Samuel
Taylor Coleridge's prose religious works. Coleridge (1772-1834),
the son of a clergyman, "was born and died a communicating member
of the Church of England." He was a prolific writer on the subject
of the relationship between church and state. At age twenty-three,
Coleridge published his first theological work, Lectures on
Revealed Religion, which focused on the concept of reason
facilitating virtue. Luke Wright maintains that this theme unites
Coleridge's theological writings, including the posthumous
Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit (1935). Although he was an
advocate of radical politics in the 1790s, by the time Coleridge
published The Friend (1809), he had become high Tory. His major
contribution to Anglican religious discourse was the revival of the
Tory position on church and state, which saw the two as an organic
unity rather than separate entities forming an alliance. His
writings were vigorously opposed to the Court Whig theory of church
and state. After Coleridge's death in 1834, his arguments were
taken up by William Gladstone and carried forward. Wright's careful
reconstruction of Coleridge's dedication to church-state issues
provides a new perspective on the writer himself and on the
intellectual history of early nineteenth-century England.
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