“Under the Claw of an Inraged Lion”: Thomas Bradbury Chandler, Benjamin Hoadly, and the Meaning of the Glorious Revolution”

In Revolution as Reformation: Protestant Faith in the Age of Revolutions, 1688-1832
University of Alabama Press, 2020

A collection of 10 essays that explores how Protestants responded to the opportunities and perils of revolution in the transatlantic age.

These wide-ranging essays, including one by S. Scott Rohrer, highlight the exchange of Protestant thinkers, traditions, and ideas across the Atlantic over nearly 150 years. The perspectives reveal similarities between revolutionary movements across the Atlantic. The essays also emphasize the foundational role that religion played in people’s attempts to make sense of their world, and the importance they placed on harmonizing their ideas about religion and politics. These efforts produced novel theories of government, encouraged both revolution and counterrevolution, and refined both personal and collective understandings of faith and its relationship to society.

“This rich, wide-ranging volume demonstrates the multitude of ways that religion could influence and foster political revolution in the long eighteenth century. I recommend it highly.”

Thomas S. Kidd, Distinguished Professor of History, Baylor