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Overview

Comprising seven essays by learned contributors and controversially advocating a rationalist Christianity, this work became a sensation upon publication in 1860. Frederick Temple (1821–1902), later Archbishop of Canterbury, wrote on the cultural contributions of non-Christians; Roland Williams (1817–70), Professor of Hebrew at Lampeter, questioned Old Testament prophesies; Baden Powell (1796–1850), Oxford Professor of Geometry, challenged belief in miracles and embraced Darwinism; Henry Bristow Wilson (1803–88) questioned literal biblical history; the only lay contributor, Egyptologist Charles Wycliffe Goodwin (1817–78), embraced geology; Mark Pattison (1813–84), tutor at Lincoln College, wrote on the history of rationalist theology; and Benjamin Jowett (1817–93), Oxford Professor of Greek, advocated a historical reading of the Bible. Wilson and Williams were later found guilty of heresy by a Church court, though this was overturned on appeal. For readers interested in the theological controversies of the Victorian era, these essays remain invaluable.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781108051934
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 04/18/2013
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Science and Religion
Pages: 448
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.98(d)

Table of Contents

The education of the world; Bunsen's biblical researches; On the study of the evidences of Christianity; Séances historiques de Genève; On the Mosaic cosmogony; Tendencies of religious thought in England, 1688–1750; On the interpretation of scripture; Note on Bunsen's biblical researches.
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