Contested Christianity : the political and social context of Victorian theology
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.
VIII, 234 Seiten
9780918954930, 0918954932
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Contested Christianity
The Political and Social Contexts of Victorian TheologyBy Timothy Larsen
Baylor University Press
Copyright © 2004 Baylor University PressAll right reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-918954-93-0
Contents
Introduction.............................................................................................................1Part One: The Social Contexts of a Private Faith.........................................................................91 Gender Egalitarianism The Baptist Women of the Mill Yard Church......................................................112 Religious Respectability The Reverend Newman Hall's Divorce Case.....................................................213 Spiritual Exploration Thomas Cook, Victorian Tourists, and the Holy Land.............................................29Part Two: The Social Contexts of a Contested Faith.......................................................................414 Biblical Criticism and the Crisis of Belief D. F. Strauss's Leben Jesu in Britain....................................435 Biblical Criticism and the Desire for Reform Bishop Colenso on the Pentateuch........................................596 Biblical Criticism and Anti-Christian Rhetoric Joseph Barker and the Case against the Bible..........................797 Biblical Criticism and the Secularist Mentality Charles Bradlaugh and the Case against Miracles......................978 The Appeal of Victorian Apologetics Thomas Cooper and the Case for Christian Orthodoxy...............................113Part Three: The Politics of Free Church Polity...........................................................................1319 Free Church Ecclesiology Lay Representation and the Methodist New Connexion..........................................13310 Free Church Politics and the Gathered Church The Evangelical Case for Religious Pluralism............................14511 Free Church Politics and Contested Memories The Historical Case for Disestablishment.................................15712 Free Church Politics and the British Empire The Baptist Case against Jamaica's Colonial Governor.....................169Conclusion...............................................................................................................189Notes....................................................................................................................195
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