The British Jesus, 1850-1970 Paperback / softback
by Meredith (Louisiana State University, USA) Veldman
Part of the Routledge Studies in Modern British History series
Paperback / softback
Description
The British Jesus focuses on the Jesus of the religious culture dominant in Britain from the 1850s through the 1950s, the popular Christian culture shared by not only church, kirk, and chapel goers, but also the growing numbers of Britons who rarely or only episodically entered a house of worship. An essay in intellectual as well as cultural history, this book illumines the interplay between and among British New Testament scholarship, institutional Christianity, and the wider Protestant culture.
The scholars who mapped and led the uniquely British quest for the historical Jesus in the first half of the twentieth century were active participants in efforts to replace the popular image of “Jesus in a white nightie” with a stronger figure, and so, they hoped, to preserve Britain’s Christian identity.
They failed. By exploring that failure, and more broadly, by examining the relations and exchanges between popular, artistic, and scholarly portrayals of Jesus, this book highlights the continuity and the conservatism of Britain’s popular Christianity through a century of religious and cultural transformation. Exploring depictions of Jesus from over more than one hundred years, this book is a crucial resource for scholars of British Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:396 pages, 36 Halftones, black and white; 36 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:06/04/2022
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- ISBN:9781032147963
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:396 pages, 36 Halftones, black and white; 36 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:06/04/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781032147963
