Abstract
The purpose of this book is not to follow every clue to Jane Austen's religious opinions. It is to show that her manner as a novelist is broadly that of the conservative Christian moralist of the 1790s; that she continues to write as a Christian, with minor modifications only to accord with the prevailing manner; and that before the disputatious sectarianism of the next generation, it is still possible to draw a critical divide where Richard Whately puts it: between the advocates of a Christian conservatism on the one hand, with their pessimistic view of man's nature, and their belief in external authority; on the other hand, progressives, sentimentalists, revolutionaries, with their optimism about man, and their preference for spontaneous personal impulse against rules imposed from without. It is important to recognize that this great distinction in dogma dwarfs lesser ones, interesting in themselves though these may be.
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