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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... sentiments in the poor people whom she reached with her tracts . And the Toryism in question is not that of the hearty eighteenth- century squirearchy , nor yet that which was to come with Disraeli , but the openly repressive Toryism of ...
... sentiments in the poor people whom she reached with her tracts . And the Toryism in question is not that of the hearty eighteenth- century squirearchy , nor yet that which was to come with Disraeli , but the openly repressive Toryism of ...
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... sentiments . The whole is conducted with a wonderful mixture of gran- deur and simplicity , which sufficiently distinguishes him from the dulness of some tragedians , and the bombast of others . In the same letter Doddridge recommends ...
... sentiments . The whole is conducted with a wonderful mixture of gran- deur and simplicity , which sufficiently distinguishes him from the dulness of some tragedians , and the bombast of others . In the same letter Doddridge recommends ...
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... sentiments , which would not be wholly endorsed by many of his brethren then , and still less now ' . To this the 27 - year - old Robert Hall replied with a pamphlet , Christianity Consistent with a Love of Freedom ( 1791 ) . But ...
... sentiments , which would not be wholly endorsed by many of his brethren then , and still less now ' . To this the 27 - year - old Robert Hall replied with a pamphlet , Christianity Consistent with a Love of Freedom ( 1791 ) . But ...
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