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A People of One Book

The Bible and the Victorians

by Timothy Larsen

  • Hardback
  • 336 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 2 cm

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For history buffs and Christian scholars interested in culture

Sheds light on the Bible's role in Victorian life

You will gain insight into diverse Victorian beliefs and practices

Explore the profound influence of the Bible 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

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    January 2011

  • Weight

    636g

  • Page Count

    336

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199570096

  • ISBN-10

    0199570094

  • Eden Code

    3471089

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