...the ties to groups and subcultures, Parson Thwackum's sentiments often lie just below the surface: "When I mention religion, I mean the Christian religion;...the Protestant religion, but the Church of England." Such sentiments are easily aroused in a pluralist context, and especially so in times such as the present...

...(1749) accurately depicted what the law allowed on the subject. As Fielding's Parson Thwackum put it, "When I mention religion, I mean the Christian religion;...the Protestant religion, but the Church of England." Rigidity was Thwackum 's means of managing the lay religious eclecticism he neither condoned nor perhaps...

...Queen drew herself up rather stiffly, and said, 'Queens never make bargains.' Through the Looking Glass 'When I mention religion, I mean the Christian religion,...the Protestant religion but the Church of England.' Thwackum in Tom Jones i Allegro ma non troppo: praising metaphrase This chapter will explore some of...

...problem, some definitions or distinctions are in order. "When I mention religion," said Parson Thwackum, "I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian...the Protestant religion, but the Church of England." Likewise, when I mention utilitarianism, I mean Benthamism; and not only Benthamism, but crude Benthamism;...

...Fielding's Parson Thwackum mentioned religion, it was precisely this consensus that he had in mind: "When I mention Religion, I mean the Christian Religion;...the Protestant Religion, but the Church of England." The need to reconcile the opinions of High Churchmen, Evangelicals, and the assorted vicars of Bray...

...Presbyterianism comparable to Mr. Thwackum's presumption about Anglicanism in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones: "When I mention religion, I mean the Christian religion,...the Protestant religion, but the Church of England." 5 Anglicans, Baptists, Congregationalists, Lutherans, Mennonites, Methodists, Orthodox, Pentecostalists,...

...definition by two extreme instances gleaned from Fielding's novels. Says Parson Thwackum in Tom Jones, When I mention religion, I mean the Christian religion...Protestant religion, but the Church of England. And Parson Adams, in Joseph Andrews, is equally explicit : The first care I always take is of a boy's morals...

...commonly held understanding of Anglicanism in the 1700s. We smile over its pomposity and its complacency: When I mention religion, I mean the Christian religion,...not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.1 Such a picture of Anglicanism is as far away from the prevailing understandings as Mars is...

...enemies to the true Church" and declared, "nor is religion manifold, because there are various sects and heresies in the world. When I mention religion I mean...not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England."67 Today, we think about religious liberty more abstractly than that, and a kind of parity...

...Protestantism, as do scholars who mean, but never say, what is said < by Mr Thwackum in Fielding's Tom ¡ones: "When I mention religion, I mean the Christian religion;...not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of z England.")50 The hope was that if we learned about other religions, we <± would no longer hate and...