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God and history : aspects of British theology, 1875-1914

Title
God and history : aspects of British theology, 1875-1914 / Peter Hinchliff.
Author
Hinchliff, Peter Bingham.
Publication
Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

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267 pages; 22 cm
Summary
  • Everyone knows that the new scientific discoveries of the 19th century posed problems for Christian theology. Less well known is the fact that the new understanding of history, developed in the same period, also created a number of difficulties. The realization that Christianity possessed a history of its own, and had changed and developed, raised numerous important questions for theologians and Christians alike.
  • Newman's revised Essay on the Development of Doctrine provides the starting point for this new and comprehensive survey, in which Peter Hinchliff discusses the ideas of wide range of theologians from the full spectrum of Christianity--from Roman Catholics through to theologians from the Churches of England and Scotland, and the Free Church--and their attempts to tackle these questions in the period leading up to the Great War.
  • He proves that this hitherto little studied period in the development of theology is in fact an area of considerable interest and pertinence to theologians and historians alike.
Subject
  • Theology, Doctrinal > Great Britain > History > 19th century
  • Theology, Doctrinal > Great Britain > History > 20th century
  • Great Britain > Church history > 19th century
  • Great Britain > Church history > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-260) and index.
Contents
1. Background: Historical and Religious Understanding in Nineteenth-Century Britain -- 2. Developing but Faithful: Newman's Revised Essay on Development -- 3. A Historical Cul-de-Sac: Jowett's Liberal Protestantism -- 4. The Older the Better: Benson (and Lightfoot and Westcott) -- 5. Separate Spiritual Truth: The Essays in Lux Mundi -- 6. Cut Loose from History: British Idealism and the Science of Religion -- 7. Faith and History: Lord Acton and Catholic Modernism in Britain -- 8. Knowing God in History: Scottish Critics and Principal Fairbairn -- 9. Off with the New and On with the Old: R.J. Campbell and the New Theology -- 10. A Man for All Fashions: Pre-War Theology and B. N. Streeter.
ISBN
0198263333 :
LCCN
91039178
OCLC
  • 24696890
  • ocm24696890
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Columbia University Libraries