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A People of One Book

The Bible and the Victorians

by Timothy Larsen

  • Paperback
  • 336 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 16.3 x 23.2 x 1.8 cm

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For history enthusiasts and Bible readers alike

Reveals the Bible's role in Victorian culture and thought

You will gain insight into diverse religious perspectives

A People of One Book explores the Bible's influence on Victorian society.

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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.
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  • Title

    A People of One Book

  • Author

    Timothy Larsen

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    October 2012

  • Weight

    520g

  • Page Count

    336

  • Dimensions

    16.3 x 23.2 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199667819

  • ISBN-10

    0199667810

  • Eden Code

    4037531

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