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Does the 'collapse of synthesis' adequately explain the later decline of Nonconformity?
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Does the 'collapse of synthesis' adequately explain the later decline of Nonconformity? The 'Nonconformist conscience', a term that came into use during the last part of the nineteenth century is the set of ideologies commonly shared between the various Nonconforming communities during the nineteenth century. Richard Helmstadter's argument in The Nonconformist Conscience1 suggests that the synthesis and success achieved within Victorian Britain by Nonconformists from about 1830, was over by 1880 because of a 'collapse of synthesis'. Helmstadter2 argues that from 1830-1850, Nonconformist political, religious and social positions complimented and supported each other, thus a synthesis and the ideology called the 'Nonconformist conscience' was achieved. His theory provides a logical and orderly approach to the fifty-year success of Nonconformity, which ended, Helmstadter maintains because of cultural, intellectual and political changes within British society after 1880. The areas of concern to Helmstadter are religion, politics, the social-elite and social reform, evangelicalism...
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