The religion of a lawyer? William Blackstone's Anglicanism
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2004
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Prest, W.
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Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2004; 21(2):153-168
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Wilfrid Prest
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<jats:p xml:lang="en">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.</jats:p>