Table of Contents

Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction. T. H. Green, Philosophy and Liberalism 1.1. Some Observations on Historical Method Chapter One. Career, Influence, Reputation 1.1. Idealism, Analytic Philosophy and Religion 1.2. The Education and Career of an Academic Philosopher 1.3. The Question of Influence 1.4. Empiricism and Naturalism in the Nineteenth Century 1.5. The Professionalization of Philosophy 1.6. Philosophy in the World: Green and Liberalism 1.7. Academic Radicalism Chapter Two. Green's View of Self and Society 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Being and Knowing 2.3. The Moral Motive and Self-Realization 2.4. The Moral Ideal and the Eternal Principle 2.5. Rights and Civil Society 2.6. The State and Political Representation 2.7. Property 2.8. Duty, Virtue, Freedom Chapter Three. Rational Religion, Sittlichkeit and the Christed Self 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Religion, Reason and Romanticism 3.3. Green's Religious Inheritance 3.4. 'German' Innovations and Green's Theology 3.5. Liberal Theology and the History of Dogma 3.6. Green's 'Four Lectures on the English Revolution'(1867) 3.7. Modern Puritans and the Dissidence of Dissent 3.8. Religion, Morality, Community: Idealism vs. Arnoldism Chapter Four. Religious Principles and Social Change 4.1. Introduction 4.2. Liberalism and the Dissenting Experience 4.3. Anglicans, Dissenters and Education, 1833-1870 4.4. Green and the Idea of National Education 4.5. Temperance 4.6. Green and Dissent at Oxford 4.7. The Nonconformist Social Conscience Chapter Five. The Social Gospel and Radicalism, 1870-1900 5.1. Introduction 5.2. The Social Turn of the 1880s 5.3. Two Concepts of Liberty? 5.4. The Social Turn and 'Organic Reform' 5.5. Green, Christian Meliorism and 'Socialism' 5.6. Radicalism and Moral Fervour: the Gladstonian Impulse 5.7. The Dissenters and Christian Socialism 5.8. Green and the Unsectarian Social Service Ideal Chapter Six. Green and Political Memory 6.1. Right and Left Greenians 6.2. Radical Conservatives 6.3. Intellectuals in Politics and the Idea of Character 6.4. Charity, Voluntarism, State Action 6.5. Rights of Nations and Anti-Imperialism 6.6. Green and the Rights of Women 6.7. Green as Philo-Dissenter Epilogue. Green, Social Philosophy and the Question of Belief Selected Bibliography I. Manuscripts and Unpublished Primary Sources II. Green's Published Writings and Letters; Reported Speeches III. Parliamentary Papers and Public Documents IV. Sources Originally Printed Before 1914 V. Other Printed Sources Since 1914 VI. Theses and Dissertations VII. Unpublished Conference Papers Index

Reviews

"There is much to be learnt from this book concerning Green's attitude to religion. It is especially impressive in the scholarly way that it traces Green's debts in this area to German theological thought, and particularly to Pietism." -- Edmund Neill English Historical Review "A work of particularly outstanding scholarship: literally no stone is left unturned in his exhaustive and well-written examination of Green's philosophical views in the light of contemporary debates." -- Thom Brooks Times Higher Education Supplement "Leighton's study is probably the richest assessment of Green's religious ideas among the present books." -- Andrew Vincent Victorian Studies review