Essays and Reviews

by Temple, Frederick; Williams, Rowland; Powell, Baden; Wilson, Henry Bristow; Goodwin, Charles Wycliffe

• ISBN13: 9781108051934
• ISBN10: 1108051936
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-04-26
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

Comprising seven essays by learned contributors and controversially advocating a rationalist Christianity, this work became a sensation upon publication in 1860. Frederick Temple (1821-1902), later Archbishop of Canterbury, wrote on the cultural contributions of non-Christians; Roland Williams (1817-70), Professor of Hebrew at Lampeter, questioned Old Testament prophesies; Baden Powell (1796-1850), Oxford Professor of Geometry, challenged belief in miracles and embraced Darwinism; Henry Bristow Wilson (1803-88) questioned literal biblical history; the only lay contributor, Egyptologist Charles Wycliffe Goodwin (1817-78), embraced geology; Mark Pattison (1813-84), tutor at Lincoln College, wrote on the history of rationalist theology; and Benjamin Jowett (1817-93), Oxford Professor of Greek, advocated a historical reading of the Bible. Wilson and Williams were later found guilty of heresy by a Church court, though this was overturned on appeal. For readers interested in the theological controversies of the Victorian era, these essays remain invaluable.

Table of Contents

The education of the world

Bunsen's biblical researches

On the study of the evidences of Christianity

Séances historiques de Genÿve

On the Mosaic cosmogony

Tendencies of religious thought in England, 1688âÇô1750

On the interpretation of scripture

Note on Bunsen's biblical researches

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