Conflict and Crisis in the Religious Life of Late Victorian England

Herbert Schlossberg (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

332 Seiten

2009
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4128-1027-2 (ISBN)

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Contrary to its popular image as dull and stodgy, the Victorian period was one of revolutionary change. In its politics, its art, its economic aff airs, its class relationships, and in its religion, change was constant. A half-century after Queen Victoria's death, it was said that she was born in one world and died in another. Th e most interesting and valuable studies of the period take the long view, as does Schlossberg, in his fascinating analysis of religious life in this period.

For the Victorians, religion was not cordoned off from the push and shove of real life. Th e early evangelicals got off to a shaky start, beset by hostility, but the movement spread within the churches despite the suspicion in which it was held. Evangelicals, frequently called Puritans by those who opposed them, called for fundamental reforms in both the Church and the society; a social ethic was part of their program of religious renewal. Th eir moral sense explains the social activism of both Church of England Evangelicals and Dissenters, including the half-century crusade for the abolition of slavery.

Schlossberg shows how religion in England dealt with such issues as science and the eff ect of German scholarship on religious thinking. Church history cannot simply be explained by its response to external forces as much as by the internal responses to those challenges. Th e nature of the religious enterprise itself, its theologians, clergy, lay people--like all people and all institutions--all responded with alternatives. Schlossberg helps us understand the Victorian period, as well as the increasing secularity of English life today.

Herbert Schlossberg is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He is a leading scholar on the relationship between Christianity and societies in which it existed. He is the author of several books including The Silent Revolution and The Making of Victorian England, Called to Suffer, Called to Triumph: Eighteen True Stories by Persecuted Christians, and A Fragrance of Oppression: The Church and Its Persecutors.

Dedicatory Note, Introduction, 1. The Setting for the Coming Struggles, 2. The Decay of the Evangelical Party in the Church of England, 3. The Waning of the Nonconformist Spirit, 4. The High Church on the Way to Ascendency, 5. Truth, Freedom, and the Fratricide of the Orthodox, 6. The Diffusive Religion of the Late Victorians, 7. Alternatives to Christianity, 8. Conclusions, Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.9.2009
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4128-1027-2 / 1412810272
ISBN-13	978-1-4128-1027-2 / 9781412810272
Zustand	Neuware