A Gathered Church: The Literature of the English Dissenting Interest, 1700-1930Oxford University Press, 1978 - 152 Seiten In this provocative volume well-known poet and literary critic Donald Davie examines the dissenting voice in English literature, religion, and politics. Examining the works of writers such as Milton, Charles Blake, and George Eliot; pulpit-orators such as Robert Hall; scientists like Michael Faraday; and political activists such as Joseph Priestley, he considers such questions as: How did their voice develop after their death? And were these dissenters the religious bigots, political time-servers, and artistic philistines they are portrayed as? |
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... feel certain that we could mention in the first half of the nineteenth century three bishops whose characters make upon us a greater impression of purity and devotion than those of Berkeley , Butler , and Wilson ; I doubt whether among ...
... feel certain that we could mention in the first half of the nineteenth century three bishops whose characters make upon us a greater impression of purity and devotion than those of Berkeley , Butler , and Wilson ; I doubt whether among ...
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... feel with the Hebrew Scriptures , and vice versa . We need to remember that Racine wrote Athalie as well as Phèdre ; that Dryden wrote The Hind and the Panther as well as Macflecknoe ; and that Isaac Watts is as authentic a voice of ...
... feel with the Hebrew Scriptures , and vice versa . We need to remember that Racine wrote Athalie as well as Phèdre ; that Dryden wrote The Hind and the Panther as well as Macflecknoe ; and that Isaac Watts is as authentic a voice of ...
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... feel that an attempt like Watts's , to change Dis- sent from inside , was a more honourable and forthright endeavour . Certainly , we may infer , it seemed so to Dr Johnson , who said of Watts : ' Such he was as every Christian Church ...
... feel that an attempt like Watts's , to change Dis- sent from inside , was a more honourable and forthright endeavour . Certainly , we may infer , it seemed so to Dr Johnson , who said of Watts : ' Such he was as every Christian Church ...
Inhalt
Lecture | 1 |
Dissent in the Present Century | 91 |
Notes | 109 |
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admirable aesthetic Anglican Arminian Arnold Blake Bogue and Bennett Bunyan called Calvinism Calvinist candour certainly Chapel Charles Wesley Christ Christian Church clergy Congregational Congregationalism Congregationalists culture D. H. Lawrence declared devotion dissenting minister doctrine Doddridge's E. P. Thompson Edwards's eighteenth century Eliot England English Dissent Establishment Evangelical fact Faraday Faraday's George Halévy historians hymns instance intellectual Isaac Watts John Wesley Johnson Lawrence Lawrence's lecture Leslie Stephen less literary literature Lucy Aikin Mark Rutherford Matthew ment Methodists Miall mind nineteenth century Nonconformist Old Dissent Orthodox Dissent Particular Baptists Philip Doddridge philistinism photograph Doreen Davie poem poet poetry political Pope preached Priestley Protestant Psalms pulpit Puritanism quote R. W. Dale religion religious Robert Hall Scripture sect seems sense sentiments social Socinian spirit Spurgeon tarian theology thought tion tradition Unitarian verses Watts and Doddridge Watts's Wesley's Wesleyan Whitefield William Hale White words worship