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Moderation, Religion, and Public Discourse: The Rhetoric of Occasional Conformity in England, 1697–1711
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Rhetorica, 1997, Vol.15 (1), p.53-79
Ort / Verlag
Berkeley, Calif: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
1997
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This paper analyzes the rhetoric of the eighteenth- century English debate over occasional conformity in order to develop a better understanding of how persuasive appeals to moderation were used in this particular case. This debate is noteworthy because it reveals how the eighteenth-century veneration of moderation was influenced by the seventeenth-century Protestant reading of the New Testament. This understanding of moderation led to some of the first arguments suggesting a need for separation of church and state. Further, this example extends our theoretical understanding of moderate rhetoric when we observe its use as a justification for social change.