A massive and authoritative contribution to the intellectual and cultural history of modern England.

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.