Maurice Cowling was born in London in 1926. He was educated at Battersea Grammar School and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he read History. He did military service between 1944 and 1948 in the British and Indian armies. He as a Fellow of Jesus College from 1950 to 1953 and, after a period spent chiefly in London, returned to Jesus as a Fellow in 1961. Since 1963 he has been a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and from 1976-93 University Reader in Modern English History.
Introduction; Part V. The Christian Intellect and Modern Thought in Modern England: 1. The reanimation of protestantism I: Carlyle
Froude and Kingsley; 2. Christianity and literature I: Burke and Disraeli; 3. The reanimation of protestantism II: Thomas Arnold
Bunsen
Jowett
Stanley
Lyall and Max Muller; 4. The enlargement of Christianity: Matthew Arnold
Seeley
Sidgwick and Wicksteed; 5. Christianity and literature II: Dickens
Tennyson
Browning
Pater and Wilde; 6. Christianity and modern knowledge I: Stirling
Wallace
Caird and Green; 7. Whiggism
liberalism and Christianity I: Macaulay
Lecky
Bryce and Fisher; 8. Whiggism
liberalism and Christianity II: Fitzjames Stephen
Acton
Maine
Inge
Henson and Smuts; 9. Christianity and modern knowledge II: Whewell
Stubbs and Cunningham; 10. Christianity in an unfriendly world I: Shaftesbury
Maurice
Westcott
Tawney and Temple; 11. Christianity in an unfriendly world II: Forsyth
Masterman
Gore
Figgis and Lewis; 12. Christianity in an unfriendly world III: Underhill
Eddington
Needham
Zaehner and Jung; 13. Christianity in an unfriendly world IV: Balfour
Ashley and Joseph Chamberlain; 14. Christianity in an unfriendly world V: Milbank and Macintyre; Part VI. The Post-Christian Consensus: 15. Modern knowledge and the post-Christian consensus I: Darwin
Dawkins
Galton and Pearson; 16. Modern knowledge and the post-Christian consensus II: Freud
J. B. S. Haldane
Huxley and Popper; 17. Modern knowledge and the post-Christian consensus III: F. H. Bradley
Bosanquet
R. B. Haldane
A. C. Bradley
Elgar
Parry and Hadow; 18. Modern knowledge and the post-Christian consensus IV: Maitland
Hobhouse
Keynes and Hayek; 19. English socialism as English religion: The Webbs
Macdonald
Laski
Orwell and Crossman; 20. Literature and the post-Christian consensus: Wordsworth
Hardy
Kipling and Forster; 21. Modern knowledge and the post-Christian consensus V: Richards and Leavis; 22. Modern knowledge and the post-Christian consensus VI: Williams
Eagleton
Kenny
Skinner and Scruton; 23. Judaism and the post-Christian consensus: Namier
Berlin
Koestler and Steiner; 24. Complication and dilapidation; Conclusion: the author and the argument; Index.
