Religious Beliefs
- Keble's Application of Biblical Symbolism to Church Politics
- Keble's "National Apostasy" (1833) full text of sermon
- Keble's basic rules for reading the Bible
- Finds Types within Christ's Lifetime
- Keble's Distrust of Evangelicals
- Fasting a Christian's way to conquer Satan
- Beauty of Nature symbolizes divine spiritual attributes
- Keble uses earthly things, rather than biblical events, as materials for typological interpretation
Keble's Theory and Practice of Biblical Interpretation
- Moses striking the rock prefigures Christ bringing forth tears of repentance
- Keble interprets bibical types as prefiguring priesthood and sacrament of Holy Communion
- Keble finds divinely sanctioned interpretation of types in the Bible itself
- Heavenly things have higher reality than earthy ones ("The True Riches)
- "Sixth Sunday after Trinity" and traditional interpretations of the Psalms
- "Easter Eve," typology, and the stricken rock
Keble's Literary Relations
- The Importance of Keble's Christian Year
- Keble, Rossetti, Print Culture, and Imagined Religious Communities
- The Influence of Wordsworth upon Keble
- Swinburne paraodies Keble's "Gunpowder Treason
- George Eliot's Allusion to Keble in "Janet's Repentance"
Works
- “National Apostasy&rdquo — the semron that launched the Oxford Movement (e-text in VW)
- The Christian Year (poetry) E-text at Project Gutenberg
Bibliography
Smith, Goldwin. “Review of [Sir John] Coleridge’s Life of Keble in Lectures and Essays. Toronto, 1881. Project Gutenberg text 2004 [EBook #6570] produced by Tonya Allen, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Web. 18 June 2018. [complete text in the Victorian Web]
“The Rev. John Keble.” Illustrated London News (14 April 1866): 365. (Source of portrait above.)
Last modified 9 July 2018