These essays celebrate James Bradley, prolific student of eighteenth-century British religion and long-time professor of church history at Fuller Theological Seminary. Eleven colleagues from both sides of the pond, three of them his former students, illustrate his interests by offering papers grouped under two broad foci: “Accommodating Religious Heterodoxy” and “Religion, Politics and Society.” Both sections help illustrate Bradley's pushback against Jonathan Clark's contention that religious heterodoxy drove Dissent toward political radicalism. Against this “heresy-radicalism” thesis, it was, rather, “social and economic injustice, combined with a more egalitarian ecclesiastical polity” that moved religious Dissent into political opposition to the Establishment (3).

In the first part, Richard Muller's account of the moderate orthodox Dissenter Philip Doddridge, and Robert G. Ingram's analysis of the controversial Anglican Conyers Middleton are both absorbing. Among the second set, William Gibson helpfully argues against an overly easy identification between Whigs, Low Churchmen, and Dissenters, on the one hand, and Tories and High Anglicans, on the other, in the early eighteenth century. And Peter Nockles provides the most ecumenical chapter in the book, showing how a Reformation classic (Foxe's “Book of Martyrs”) fared among Anglicans, other Protestants, and Catholics in the second half of the long eighteenth century. But all the offerings engage and teach, and thereby honor Professor Bradley. Hats off to Ashgate for producing this fine Festschrift.