Essays and Reviews. - TEMPLE, F. and WILLIAMS, R. and POWELL, B.,

KORTE INHOUD

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 Vic...
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2013Uitgever: Cambridge University Press448 paginasISBN-10: 1108051936ISBN-13: 9781108051934

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