Contested Christianity : the political and social context of Victorian theology /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Larsen, Timothy, 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, [2004]
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Gender egalitarianism : the Baptist women of the Mill Yard Church
  • Religious respectability : the Reverend Newman Hall's divorce case
  • Spiritual exploration : Thomas Cook, Victorian tourists, and the Holy Land
  • Biblical criticism and the crisis of belief : D.F. Strauss's Leben Jesu in Britain
  • Biblical criticism and the desire for reform : Bishop Colenso on the Pentateuch
  • Biblical criticism and anti-Christian rhetoric : Joseph Barker and the case against the Bible
  • Biblical criticism and the secularist mentality : Charles Bradlaugh and the case against miracles
  • The appeal of Victorian apologetics : Thomas Cooper and the popular case for Christian orthodoxy
  • Free church ecclesiology : lay representation and the Methodist New Connexion
  • Free church politics and the gathered church : the evangelical case for religious pluralism
  • Free church politics and contested memories : the historical case for disestablishment
  • Free church politics and the British Empire : the Baptist case against Jamaica's colonial governor.