This book is the first systematic historical examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's prose religious works. Coleridge (1772-1834) was a prolific writer on the subject of the relationship between church and state. His major contribution to Anglican religious discourse was the revival of the Tory position that the two were an organic unity, rather than separate entities forming an alliance. His writings were vigorously opposed to the Court Whig theory of church and state. After Coleridge's death in 1834, his arguments were taken up by William Gladstone and carried forward. Wright's careful reconstruction of Coleridge's dedication to church-state issues provides a new perspective on the writer himself and on the intellectual history of early-nineteenth-century England.