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Consideration of Coleridge’s relationship with the Church of England could quite appropriately begin, of course, shortly after his birth, with his baptism in the village church of Ottery St. Mary. For this was the beginning of a bond — spiritual, intellectual and emotional — which was to be at the centre of his life for most of the next sixty-two years. Indeed, as a boy he was assumed to be destined for a career in the Church. However, since Coleridge’s upbringing (initially under the tutelage of his vicar father, John Coleridge) was unexceptionably Anglican, and since his flirtation with Unitarianism is treated by H. W. Piper in this volume, we may begin with his return from Unitarianism to Trinitarian orthodoxy in 1805, during his sojourn in Malta.
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See J. Robert Barth, SJ, Coleridge and Christian Doctrine (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), ch. I.
John Coulson, Newman and the Common Tradition: A Study in the Language of Church and Society ( Oxford: Clarendon, Press, 1970 ) p. 34.
J. Wickham Legg, English Church Life: From the Restoration to the Tractarian Movement ( London: Longmans, Green, 1914 ) p. 37.
Huntington MS on the Divine Ideas, as quoted by John H. Muirhead, Coleridge as Philosopher ( London: George Allen & Unwin, 1930 ) p. 220.
Charles Richard Sanders, Coleridge and the Broad Church Movement ( Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1942 ) pp. 8–9.
‘John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow,’ Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ed. F. L. Cross (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958) p. 827.
Stephen Prickett, Romanticism and Religion: The Tradition of Coleridge and Wordsworth in the Victorian Church ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976 ) p. 150.
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Barth SJ, J.R. (1990). Coleridge and the Church of England. In: Gravil, R., Lefebure, M. (eds) The Coleridge Connection. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20667-4_14
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