jan 1, 1825 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
published his "Aids to Reflection"
Description:
- important theological writing
- revised Anglican orthodoxy
- revived the writings of seventeenth-century divines such as Archbishop Robert Leighton, (whose writing on spiritual truth and religion Coleridge thought invaluable)
- but also to reveal the shortcomings of many religious and spiritual tenets and beliefs of contemporaries
- esp. those associated with evidence writing (work of Archdeacon William Paley, Unitarianism, and rational theology)
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