Chapter 1 Introduction: What is the Broad Church? Chapter 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Chapter 3 Thomas Arnold & the Oxford Noetics Chapter 4 Cambridge Apostles and Prophets Chapter 5 Matthew Arnold & the Oxford Decade Chapter 6 Conclusion: An Evaluation
Tod E. Jones is a Lecturer on British Literature and Writing at the University of Maryland.
Tod Jones provides an exhaustive and up-to-date synthesis of
primary and secondary materials on the Broad Church movement,
surveying the mainstream of British liberal religious thought and
the foundations of the British literary canon from Coleridge to
Matthew Arnold. This book will prove very useful for students of
religion and literature alike.
*Victor Shea, York University, Co-editor (with William Whitla),
Essays and Reviews: The 1860 Text and its Readings*
Anyone who admits to find gripping a history of an intellectual
movement within the Victorian church risks being thought to lead a
rather unsatisfactory life. Truth is, though, that Dr. Jones'
biography of the Broad Church is compelling and succeeds in raising
questions still fit to disturb Christian and clerical
complacencies. Dr. Jones' choice of biography as the form in which
to discuss this movement is superbly appropriate to appreciate a
tradition marked much less by stable beliefs than by an enduring
character. Its most influential theologian, F. D. Maurice, who
insisted that if "Broad Church" meant anything, it meant not a
party, would surely have approved. As Tod Jones understands it, the
Broad Church movement was, at its best, a sober and sympathetic
appreciation of modernity by clergy and laity who, at the same
time, were not "ashamed of the gospel." This "biography of a
movement" is persuasive in its weaving of personal histories and
intellectual developments, negotiates very nimbly the complexities
of English university and ecclesiastical politics, and expounds the
range of theological ideas from Maurice's ecumenical Christology to
Matthew Arnold's taking leave of theism with great clarity and, as
befits a biography, affection.
*Alan Gregory, Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest;
author of Coleridge and the Conservative Imagination*
As an Episcopalian who stands with one foot in the Evangelical
tradition and the other in Liberal reasonableness, I am grateful
for this luxurious group portrait of English intellectual forbears
I never knew I had.
*Richard J. Jones, Virginia Theological Seminary*
Jones reveals the interconnections between all these personalities,
through family and university, through shared thoughts and
feelings, reminding one in fascinating ways of the small size of
the ecclesiastical, literary, and political establishment in the
Victorian era.
*Anglican Theological Review*
. . . .The Broad Church successfully and creatively re-imagines a
host of once prominent English thinkers whose own struggle to
engage both church and society may still provide an enriching
source of theological reflection.
*Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture*
Through remarkably wide reading of the sources and an intricate
connecting of personal relationships [Tod Jones] has produced what
now constitutes the single best introduction to liberal Victorian
Anglican theology. It is an important accomplishment that should
have lasting influence among all scholars interested in Victorian
intellectual, religious, and literary life.
*Frank Turner, John Hay Whitney Professor of History, Yale
University*
Tod Jones has produced an engaging and informative history of the
Broad Church Movement…a deeply nuanced account of intellectual and
spiritual revival of the nineteenth-century churcg.
*Anglican and Episcopal History*
This is, perhaps, the first book-length account of Victorian Church
controversies written by an American specifically for an American
audience, and it is precisely that outsider's view that is
valuable.
*Victorian Studies*
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