ABSTRACT
The English Enlightenment was not an irreligious moment. 'Atheism, if it existed at all, was marginal', Mark Goldie notes.1 Neither was England's Enlightenment necessarily a secular moment.2 J.G.A. Pocock and Brian Young have recently demonstrated its clerical, conservative nature,3 confirming Sheridan Gilley's argument that ' "enlightenment" found a home within the Christian churches' in the Anglo-American world.4 Even those, like the late Roy Porter, who locate the origins of 'modernity' during the period, readily acknowledge 'that Enlightenment goals...throve in
I thank the Center on Religion and Democracy in Charlottesville, Virginia, for supporting the research into Warburton and the staff of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center in Austin, Texas, for allowing me to examine the Warburton manuscripts housed there. I am particularly grateful to Bill Gibson, Pat Griffin, Paul Halliday, and Jill Ingram for their valuable advice in the preparation of the chapter. All mistakes are mine alone.
