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A People of One Book by Timothy Larsen, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Timothy Larsen

Current price: $71.50
A People of One Book by Timothy Larsen, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
A People of One Book by Timothy Larsen, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

A People of One Book by Timothy Larsen, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Timothy Larsen

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Although the Victorians were awash in texts, the Bible was such a pervasive and dominant presence that they may fittingly be thought of as 'a people of one book'. They habitually read the Bible, quoted it, adopted its phraseology as their own, thought in its categories, and viewed their ownlives and experiences through a scriptural lens. This astonishingly deep, relentless, and resonant engagement with the Bible was true across the religious spectrum from Catholics to Unitarians and beyond. The scripture-saturated culture of nineteenth-century England is displayed by Timothy Larsen in a series of lively case studies of representative figures ranging from the Quaker prison reformer Elizabeth Fry to the liberal Anglican pioneer of nursing Florence Nightingale to the Baptist preacher C. H. Spurgeon to the Jewish author Grace Aguilar. Even the agnostic man of science T. H. Huxley and the atheist leaders Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant were thoroughly and profoundly preoccupied with the Bible. Serving as a tour of the diversity and variety of nineteenth-century views, Larsen's study presents the distinctive beliefs and practices of all the major Victorian religious and sceptical traditions from Anglo-Catholics to the Salvation Army to Spiritualism, while simultaneously drawing out theircommon, shared culture as a people of one book. | A People of One Book by Timothy Larsen, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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