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A People of One Book
The Bible and the Victorians
Timothy Larsen
336 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-966781-9
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Paperback
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18 October 2012
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- Presents the use of scripture as a unifying key to Victorian culture.
- Provides an introduction to the diversity of Victorian beliefs including reference to Catholic, Unitarian, Quaker, atheist, agnostic, liberal Anglican, Spiritualist, Salvation Army perspectives.
- Gives in-depth case studies of key figures including Florence Nightingale, T. H. Huxley, C. H. Spurgeon, Catherine Booth, E. B. Pusey, Charles Bradlaugh, Nicholas Wiseman, Grace Aguilar, Annie Besant, and Josephine Butler.
Although the Victorians were awash in texts, the Bible was such a pervasive and dominant presence that they may fittingly be thought of as 'a people of one book'. They habitually read the Bible, quoted it, adopted its phraseology as their own, thought in its categories, and viewed their own lives and experiences through a scriptural lens. This astonishingly deep, relentless, and resonant engagement with the Bible was true across the religious spectrum from Catholics to Unitarians and beyond.
The scripture-saturated culture of nineteenth-century England is displayed by Timothy Larsen in a series of lively case studies of representative figures ranging from the Quaker prison reformer Elizabeth Fry to the liberal Anglican pioneer of nursing Florence Nightingale to the Baptist preacher C. H. Spurgeon to the Jewish author Grace Aguilar. Even the agnostic man of science T. H. Huxley and the atheist leaders Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant were thoroughly and profoundly preoccupied with the Bible.
Serving as a tour of the diversity and variety of nineteenth-century views, Larsen's study presents the distinctive beliefs and practices of all the major Victorian religious and sceptical traditions from Anglo-Catholics to the Salvation Army to
Spiritualism, while simultaneously drawing out their common, shared culture as a people of one book.Readership: Students and scholars of Victorian Studies; of Biblical Reception; of the History of Religion.
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Timothy Larsen, Professor of Christian Thought, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois Timothy Larsen is McManis Professor of Christian Thought, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has been a Visiting Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books including <i>Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England</i> (Oxford University Press), which was named Book of the Year by Books & Culture.
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"This is a painstakingly, formidably researched study: archives and collections of the papers and letters of several of the figures discussed have been minutely examined, as have countless newspapers and journals, magazines and tracts. Professor Larsen must have immersed himself in hundreds of sermons, biblical commentaries, essays, reviews and biographies to put together the successive case histories. And he has listened, attentively, to these different voices. The result is a recuperative work of patient synthesis, and I cannot imagine the scholar of nineteenth-century religion or literature who would not learn something new from nearly every page." - Chris Walsh, Religion and Literature "In his erudite treatment of these
dozen representative figures, Larsen, the McManis Professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College, offers a virtual survey of the Victorian religious landscape." - Journal of Religion
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Introduction
1: Anglo-Catholics: E. B. Pusey and Holy Scripture
2: Roman Catholics: Nicholas Wiseman and Sacred Scripture
3: Atheists: Charles Bradlaugh, Annie Besant, and 'this indictable book'
4: Methodist and Holiness: Catherine Booth, William Cooke, and the Scriptures
5: Liberal Anglicans: Florence Nightingale and the Bible
6: Unitarians: Mary Carpenter and the Sacred Writings
7: Quakers: Elizabeth Fry and 'Reading'
8: Agnostics: T. H.Huxley and Bibliolatry
9: Evangelical Anglicans: Josephine Butler and the Word of God
10: Orthodox Old Dissent: C. H. Spurgeon and 'the Book'
Conclusion: Spiritualism, Judaism, and the Brethren - A People of One Book
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