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Nineteenth-century evangelicalism and polarization.(The Bible War in Ireland: The "Second Reformation" and the Polarization of Protestant-Catholic Relations, 1800-1840)(Book review)

Publication: Irish Literary Supplement
Publication Date: 22-SEP-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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IRENE WHELAN The Bible War in Ireland: The "Second Reformation" and the Polarization of Protestant-Catholic Relations, 1800-1840. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2005, $60.00.

'SECOND REFORMATION" (or "New Reformation") is a term coined by evangelicals to describe the period a...

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...around the 1820s when it was just possible that sensible people who were not paying very careful attention to all that was happening in Ireland might be persuaded that the Catholics were about to become Protestants. In the preceding decade number of bishops and priests had consented to the reading of the Bible "without note or comment" in schools being provided by mainly Protestant agencies. In the mid-1820s hundreds of Catholic country folk were reportedly converted to the established church in various locations. A prominent Irish Catholic bishop floated the idea of a merger of the Roman and Anglican churches. Although Irene Whelan has added relatively little new detail of what happened in the Second...

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