Contested Christianity: The Political and Social Contexts of Victorian Theology

כריכה קדמית
Baylor University Press, 2004 - 234 עמודים
This volume explores the cultural, political, and intellectual forces that helped define nineteenth-century British Christianity. Larsen challenges many of the standard assumptions about Victorian-era Christians in their attempts to embody and their theological commitments. He highlights the way in which Dissenters and other free church Evangelicals employed the full range of theological resources available to them to take stands that the wider culture was still resisting - e.g., evangelical nonconformists enfranchising women, siding with the black population of Jamaica in opposition to their own colonial governor, championing the rights of Jews, Roman Catholics, and atheists. These stances belie the stereotypes of Victorian Evangelicals currently in existence and properly shift the focus to Dissent, to plebeian culture, to social contexts, and to the cultural and political consequences of theological commitments. This study brings freshness and verve to the study of religion and the Victorians, bearing fruit in a range of significant findings and connections.

מתוך הספר

תוכן

Introduction
1
Religious Respectability
21
Biblical Criticism and the Crisis of Belief
43
Biblical Criticism and the Desire for Reform
59
Biblical Criticism and AntiChristian Rhetoric
79
Biblical Criticism and the Secularist Mentality
97
The Appeal of Victorian Apologetics
113
Free Church Ecclesiology
133
Free Church Politics and Contested Memories
157
Conclusion
189
זכויות יוצרים

מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל

מונחים וביטויים נפוצים

מידע ביבליוגרפי