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Table of Contents:

• The social contexts of a private faith
• 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
• The social contexts of a contested faith
• 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
• The politics of free church polity
• 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.

Author/Creator:

Larsen, Timothy, 1967-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Contested Christianity: the political and social contexts of Victorian theology [by Larsen, T.]

Subjects:

Dissenters, Religious — England — History — 19th century

Christianity and politics — England — History — 19th century

Christian sociology — England — History — 19th century

England — Church history — 19th century

1800-1899

Christianity and politics

Christian sociology

Church history

Dissenters, Religious

England

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-225) and index.

Physical Description:

viii, 234 pages ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

BR759 .L24 2004

ISBNs:

0918954932 (cloth, alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2003025111

OCLC Numbers:

53483508