Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part. I The Root of the Matter 1530-1840
1 England's Political Reformation
2 The Rise of the Puritans
3 A Jew in Peru
4 “No More Our Ancient Enemy”
5 The Hartlib Circle
6 Cromwell's Secular Dilemma
7 Three wise Machiavellians
8 A Complex Messiah
9 Deists Assault the Bible
10 A Tale of Two Enlightenments
11 Science and Restoration in the Age of Reason
Part II From Belief to Action 1840-1914
12 Shaftesbury and Palmerston: "The Time has Come"
13 Two Rabbis and a Socialist Saint
14 The View from Afar. America, Australia and Russia
15 Gladstone or Disraeli
16 The Evolution of George Eliot
17 Herzl in Wonderland
18 Science, Faith and Balfour
Postscript
Bibliography
About the Author
Jonathan Immanuel is a fellow of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute in Jerusalem.
There could not be a better or more authoritative book to emerge in
this centenary year of the Balfour Declaration than Jonathan
Immanuel’s extraordinarily scholarly yet highly readable analysis
of how it came about. Connecting the Bible and Zionism with British
thinkers and statesmen stretching back over centuries, Immanuel
builds a truly compelling argument about British Zionism, both
Jewish and non-Jewish, that will fascinate and convince. Far from
being either cynical or miraculous, the genesis of the Declaration
was logical and, as Immanuel categorically proves, steeped in the
best motives and instincts of Britain’s long history.
*Andrew Roberts, King’s College, author of A History of the
English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 and Founder Member of the
Friends of Israel Initiative*
I do think you show that the restorationist tradition, if effaced,
did continue through the 18th century and act as a link between the
earlier and later phases. There’s so much fascinating material
there, and it’s well put across. Obviously, I’m no expert on the
earlier part, but do think the argument about English Protestantism
and Judaism being linked from the beginning of the Reformation by
Henry VIII seeking Old Testament/Jewish support for the divorce is
very important. The unfolding story of Puritanism and its links
with Judaism from then on makes perfect sense. From the Reformation
to Puritanism through the 18th century to that remarkable stuff on
Coleridge the main theme comes across very clearly and cogently. I
learned a lot.
*Munro Price, professor of European history at Bradford University,
author of The Road to Apocalypse*
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