Radicalism, Anxiety, and Inquiry

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Notes

1. This text is discussed in Muers (2015, 34–35). The full text can be found at https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/data/files/CPQS/Corpus/QHC13_Biddle.txt. Accessed May 20, 2016. If the town of Cambridge should feel unfairly singled out, it may be a consolation to know that there is a similar address “Wo to thee city of Oxford” from the same year.

2. Evans and Evans (1844, 319). The text of the Bill is taken here from “The Christian Progress of George Whitehead,” a Quaker from Orton, in what is now Cumbria. He recalled the arguments made to Parliament by Quakers who attempted to stop the Bill from passing. They failed.

3. The Act of Uniformity of 1662 does not incorporate the text of this Bill. Full text of the Act available at http://www.eskimo.com/~lhowell/bcp1662/intro/uniformity_1662.html. Accessed May 20, 2016.

4. For the reaction to the lecture see http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/feb/07/religion.world. Accessed May 25, 2016.

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Nicholas Adams

Nicholas Adams is Professor of Philosophical Theology at the University of Birmingham. The author of Habermas and Theology (Cambridge 2006) and Eclipse of Grace: Divine and Human Action in Hegel (Blackwell 2013), his research is in the fields of the philosophy of theology and the philosophy of interreligious engagement. His work is particularly concerned with challenges to common-sense views about disciplinary boundaries and the role of philosophical inquiry in recasting intradisciplinary disputes, especially in theology and interreligious research.