Essays and Reviews Paperback / softback
by Frederick Temple, Rowland Williams, Baden Powell, Henry Bristow Wilson, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin, Mark Pattison, Benjamin Jowett
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Science and Religion series
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:448 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:18/04/2013
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- ISBN:9781108051934
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:448 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:18/04/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108051934
