Evangelical Christianity in Victorian England

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General Introduction Evangelical Doctrine The Evangelical Movement in the Church of England Surrender a Central Element of Religious Conversions (James) Victorian Women, Evangelical Religion, and Attacks upon It and Them Typological Interpretation of Scripture The Olney Hymns “The Pulpit-method” — A Defence of Spurgeon and Evangelical Preaching Religion — Evangelical Denominations The Evangelical Movement in the Church of England Baptists Methodists Plymouth Brethren Presbyterians The Salvation Army Religion — Opponents of the Evangelicals The Oxford Movement and the Tractarians The Broad Church Party in the Church of England Important Evangelicals — Preachers and Laymen George Clayton William E. Gladstone Henry Melvill Thomas Stamford Raffles John Charles Ryle Charles Haddon Spurgeon William Wilberforce The Evangelicals and Science Evangelical acceptance of non-Darwinian Evolution Darwin and Evolution Evangelical Popular Science Publishing

Political and Social Contexts Postive Effects on British Society The antislavery movement Evangelical Missionaries to the working classes — the Navvy Missionary Society Dissenting Politics and Evangelicalism Identified with Whigs The Protestant Fight for Jewish Civil Liberties in Victorian England Sabbatarianism, Sabbath Observance, and Social Class Literary relations: Authors raised as Evangelicals or who had an Evangelical Phase Robert Browning His religous upbringing Browning's use of typological symbolism in his major works Elizabeth Barrett Browning Gerard Manley Hopkins John Henry Newman John Ruskin Ruskin's early evangelical faith Ruskin's "language of types" and Evangelical readings of scripture Literary relations: Anti-Evangelical Authors Matthew Arnold Samuel Butler Charles Dickens Questioning Evangelical Religion in Brontë and Dickens John Henry Newman Newman on the Evangelicals Elizabeth Missing Sewell Dislikes Ruskin's evangelical tone

Suggested readings

Brown, Ford K. Fathers of the Victorians: The Age of Wilberforce. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1961.

Cuningham, Valentinme. Everywhere Spoken Against: Dissent in the Victorian Novel. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.

Hilton, Boyd. The Age of Atonement: The Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and Economic Thought, 1785-1865. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.

Jay, Elizabeth. The Religion of the Heart: Anglican Evangelicalism and the Nineteenth-Century Novel. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979.

Russell, George W. E. A Short History of the Evangelical Movement. London: A. R. Mowbray and Son, 1915 [Added by GPL].

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