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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE SOCIAL EFFECT OF KELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS. Europe after the fall of the Western Empire?The Church and ' vionasteries the only hope of civilisation, especially the ene- dictines?The three parties in the English Church, official, rational, and papal?The situation in Wiklif's days?His Summer ilteoligitB, and its purpose?The poor priests and the peasant:.?The conditions of religious movements?The teaching 1-/ Pecok?The sects of the Reformation? The Independents ar- the Devolution of 16S8?TJie movement of tlie Wesleys?The uncient prosperity of Norfolk. You will of course anticipate that in dealing with the subject before me to-day, The Social Effect of Religions Movements iu English History, I do not pretend to discuss the religious tenets which have from time to time been inculcated by those who have been prominent actors in these stirring events. There may, indeed, be a lew particulars which I must deal with, in order to elucidate my estimate of the results which have from time to time been brought about in the, social and economical history of England, by religious impulses. I am indeed disposed to believe, that however much a later habit of mind has repudiated what was once thought necessary and true, the promulgation and acceptance of such tenets, the defence of them, and even as we may now think the enormous crimes perpetuated in order to enforce them, were acts of good faith, and were honestly believed essential to the safety of society. The historian who comments on the violence of Hildebrand, on the cruelties of Dominic, on the arrogance of Innocent, on the migration to Avignon, on the epoch of the Councils, on the causes of the German and theGenevan Eeformation, on the rise of Loyola, on the religious wars which endured from 1550 to near a century later, on the last g...
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