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9780199570096

A People of One Book The Bible and the Victorians

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  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-03-15
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

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.

Author Biography


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 Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England (Oxford University Press), which was named Book of the Year by Books & Culture.

Table of Contents

Introductionp. 1
Anglo-Catholics: E. B. Pusey and Holy Scripturep. 11
Roman Catholics: Nicholas Wiseman and Scared Scripturep. 43
Atheists: Charles Bradlaugh, Annie Besant, and 'this indictable book'p. 67
Methodist and Holiness: Catherine Booth, William Cooke, and the Scripturesp. 89
Liberal Anglicans: Florence Nightingale and the Biblep. 113
Unitarians: Mary Carpenter and the Sacred Writingsp. 137
Quakers: Elizabeth Fry and 'Reading'p. 169
Agnostics: T. H. Huxley and Bibliolatryp. 195
Evangelical Anglicans: Josephine Butler and the Word of Godp. 219
Orthodox Old Dissent: C. H. Spurgeon and 'The Book'p. 247
Conclusion: Spiritualism, Judaism, and the Brethren-A People of One Bookp. 277
Works Citedp. 299
Indexp. 315
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