A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians by Timothy Larsen (English) H

by Timothy Larsen

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A People of One Book by Timothy Larsen Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description This book vividly recovers the lost world of the Victorians in which everyone thought, spoke, and argued through scripture. Larsen presents lively individual case studies of well known figures from different religious and sceptical traditions, including Florence Nightingale, T. H. Huxley, C. H. Spurgeon and Catherine Booth. Publisher Description 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 own lives and experiences through a scriptural lens. This astonishingly deep, relentless, and resonant engagement with the Bible was true across the religious spectrum fromCatholics 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 representativefigures 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

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2011
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780199570096
• Condition: Fine

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