{"product_id":"contested-christianity-the-political-and-social-contexts-of-victorian-theology-paperback","title":"Contested Christianity: The Political and Social Contexts of Victorian Theology - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTimothy Larsen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume explores the cultural, political and intellectual forces that helped shape and define nineteenth-century British Christianity. Larsen challenges many of the standard assumptions about Victorian era Christians in their attempts to embody their theological commitments. In contrast to other studies of the period, Larsen highlights the way in which Dissenters and other free church evangelicals employed the full range of theological resources available to them to take stands that the wider culture was still resisting--e.g., evangelical Nonconformists enfranchising women, siding with the black population of Jamaica in opposition to their own colonial governor, championing the rights of Jews, Roman Catholics, and atheists. All of these stances belie the stereotypes of Victorian evangelicals currently in existence (even among Victorian scholars) and properly shift the focus to Dissent, to plebeian culture, to social contexts, and to the cultural and political consequences of theological commitment. This study brings freshness and verve to the study of religion and the Victorians, bearing fruit in a range of significant, and often counter-intuitive, findings and connections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTimothy Larsen is Carolyn and Fred McManis Chair of Christian Thought at Wheaton College. Among other works, Larsen has authored \u003ci\u003e Friends of Religious Equality: Nonconformist Politics in Mid-Victorian England\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCrisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 242\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 6 x 9.02 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42166751887495,"sku":"9781602581777","price":35.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/345b0aa8793cdffd5b3c1edf688b36ec.webp?v=1733322896","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/contested-christianity-the-political-and-social-contexts-of-victorian-theology-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}