1st Edition

William Wilberforce’s Clerical Networks Evangelical Identity and Victorian Revisionism

By Michael T. Morgan Copyright 2026
226 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers the first major analysis of William Wilberforce’s clerical networks, demonstrating that while a devoted Anglican, he was deeply intertwined with evangelicals of various ecclesiastical traditions. The chapters draw on Wilberforce’s extensive corpus of diaries, supplemented by a wide selection of correspondence and contemporary publications. Utilising a series of case studies, the... Read more

Abbreviations  Note on the Text  Acknowledgements  Introduction  1. Inner Circle  2. Establishment Evangelicals  3. Evangelicals Beyond The Church Of England  4. The Episcopal Bench  5. Unitarians And Roman Catholics  Conclusion  Bibliography  Index

Biography

Michael T. Morgan is President and Associate Professor of Historical Theology at William Tennent School of Theology, USA. He received his PhD from the University of Leicester, UK.