The Age of Atonement: The Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and Economic Thought, 1785-1865 (Clarendon Paperbacks)
Paperback
|English
|0198202954
|
9780198202950
The Age of Atonement: The Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and Economic Thought, 1785-1865 (Clarendon Paperbacks)
Paperback
|English
|0198202954
|
9780198202950
Overview
In this study of the British upper and middle classes during the first half of the 19th century, Boyd Hilton reveals that the people of this age were obsessed with catastrophe: wars, famines, pestilences, revolutions, floods, volcanoes, and the great commercial upheavals which periodically threatened to topple the world's first capitalist system. The dominant evangelical sentiment of the day interpreted such sufferings as part of God's plan and, not wanting to interfere with the dispensations of providence, governments took a harsh, stand-on-your-own-feet attitude towards social underdogs, whether they were bankrupts or paupers. In this work, Hilton studies how the transformation of religious thought--including new ideas about the nature of God and the Atonement--affected the economics, philosophy, science, and politics of the period.ISBN: 0198202954
ISBN13: 9780198202950
Author: Boyd Hilton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
PublicationDate: 1992-01-30
Language: English
PageCount: 320
Dimensions: 9.0 x 5.94 x 1.08
inches
Weight:
24.16 ounces
Description
In this study of the British upper and middle classes during the first half of the 19th century, Boyd Hilton reveals that the people of this age were obsessed with catastrophe: wars, famines, pestilences, revolutions, floods, volcanoes, and the great commercial upheavals which periodically threatened to topple the world's first capitalist system. The dominant evangelical sentiment of the day interpreted such sufferings as part of God's plan and, not wanting to interfere with the dispensations of providence, governments took a harsh, stand-on-your-own-feet attitude towards social underdogs, whether they were bankrupts or paupers. In this work, Hilton studies how the transformation of religious thought--including new ideas about the nature of God and the Atonement--affected the economics, philosophy, science, and politics of the period.
Hilton's fascinating, ambitious book does much more to lighten our darkness about the broader significance of evangelicalism....A persuasive and thought-provoking book.--
Journal of British Studies
Once the envy subsides, religious historians who open this extraordinary and arresting book will be strongly tempted to read it twice: once for the persuasive argument it makes about its subject, and a second time for the sheer pleasure of observing intellectual history...practiced at the very highest levels of insight and erudition....No subsequent discussion of society or religion in the age can properly begin without [this book].--
Church History
Historians of this period are going to have to take account of Hilton's careful reading of evangelical theology and its economic implications....This important book confronts us with a puzzling mixture of unresolved relationships between religious values, social classes, material conditions, scientific ideas, and individual consciences. One of the great virtues of this volume is that it forces us to address the dilemma with abundant new information and a renewed sense of urgency.--
Albion
As a contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century British culture,
The Age of Atonement is undoubtedly a study of extraordinary importance and distinction.--
Journal of British Studies
A wide-ranging, subtle, and richly rewarding study that can be pursued through several strands....This major work of intellectual and cultural history should be in all scholarly libraries and will be well worth the serious attention of students of this period.--
Religious Studies Review
An exceptionally well-researched book, with a wide-ranging approach to its subject. exploring many avenues, often ususual ones.--
The Tablet
Boyd Hilton has written a rich, stimulating, often-fascinating, if rather old-fashioned, intellectual history....An engaging, provocative, first-rate book whose many novel facets cannot be appreciated in a short review but should certainly be explored by students of Victorian culture.--
American
Historical Review
Dr. Hilton's general thesis contains an important truth, and it throws a bold and unconventional light across the whole of nineteenth-century British intellectual history.--
The Catholic Historical Review
Editorial Reviews
Hilton's fascinating, ambitious book does much more to lighten our darkness about the broader significance of evangelicalism....A persuasive and thought-provoking book.--
Journal of British Studies
Once the envy subsides, religious historians who open this extraordinary and arresting book will be strongly tempted to read it twice: once for the persuasive argument it makes about its subject, and a second time for the sheer pleasure of observing intellectual history...practiced at the very highest levels of insight and erudition....No subsequent discussion of society or religion in the age can properly begin without [this book].--
Church History
Historians of this period are going to have to take account of Hilton's careful reading of evangelical theology and its economic implications....This important book confronts us with a puzzling mixture of unresolved relationships between religious values, social classes, material conditions, scientific ideas, and individual consciences. One of the great virtues of this volume is that it forces us to address the dilemma with abundant new information and a renewed sense of urgency.--
Albion
As a contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century British culture,
The Age of Atonement is undoubtedly a study of extraordinary importance and distinction.--
Journal of British Studies
A wide-ranging, subtle, and richly rewarding study that can be pursued through several strands....This major work of intellectual and cultural history should be in all scholarly libraries and will be well worth the serious attention of students of this period.--
Religious Studies Review
An exceptionally well-researched book, with a wide-ranging approach to its subject. exploring many avenues, often ususual ones.--
The Tablet
Boyd Hilton has written a rich, stimulating, often-fascinating, if rather old-fashioned, intellectual history....An engaging, provocative, first-rate book whose many novel facets cannot be appreciated in a short review but should certainly be explored by students of Victorian culture.--
American
Historical Review
Dr. Hilton's general thesis contains an important truth, and it throws a bold and unconventional light across the whole of nineteenth-century British intellectual history.--
The Catholic Historical Review
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Overview
In this study of the British upper and middle classes during the first half of the 19th century, Boyd Hilton reveals that the people of this age were obsessed with catastrophe: wars, famines, pestilences, revolutions, floods, volcanoes, and the great commercial upheavals which periodically threatened to topple the world's first capitalist system. The dominant evangelical sentiment of the day interpreted such sufferings as part of God's plan and, not wanting to interfere with the dispensations of providence, governments took a harsh, stand-on-your-own-feet attitude towards social underdogs, whether they were bankrupts or paupers. In this work, Hilton studies how the transformation of religious thought--including new ideas about the nature of God and the Atonement--affected the economics, philosophy, science, and politics of the period.ISBN: 0198202954
ISBN13: 9780198202950
Author: Boyd Hilton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
PublicationDate: 1992-01-30
Language: English
PageCount: 320
Dimensions: 9.0 x 5.94 x 1.08
inches
Weight:
24.16 ounces
Description
In this study of the British upper and middle classes during the first half of the 19th century, Boyd Hilton reveals that the people of this age were obsessed with catastrophe: wars, famines, pestilences, revolutions, floods, volcanoes, and the great commercial upheavals which periodically threatened to topple the world's first capitalist system. The dominant evangelical sentiment of the day interpreted such sufferings as part of God's plan and, not wanting to interfere with the dispensations of providence, governments took a harsh, stand-on-your-own-feet attitude towards social underdogs, whether they were bankrupts or paupers. In this work, Hilton studies how the transformation of religious thought--including new ideas about the nature of God and the Atonement--affected the economics, philosophy, science, and politics of the period.
Hilton's fascinating, ambitious book does much more to lighten our darkness about the broader significance of evangelicalism....A persuasive and thought-provoking book.--
Journal of British Studies
Once the envy subsides, religious historians who open this extraordinary and arresting book will be strongly tempted to read it twice: once for the persuasive argument it makes about its subject, and a second time for the sheer pleasure of observing intellectual history...practiced at the very highest levels of insight and erudition....No subsequent discussion of society or religion in the age can properly begin without [this book].--
Church History
Historians of this period are going to have to take account of Hilton's careful reading of evangelical theology and its economic implications....This important book confronts us with a puzzling mixture of unresolved relationships between religious values, social classes, material conditions, scientific ideas, and individual consciences. One of the great virtues of this volume is that it forces us to address the dilemma with abundant new information and a renewed sense of urgency.--
Albion
As a contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century British culture,
The Age of Atonement is undoubtedly a study of extraordinary importance and distinction.--
Journal of British Studies
A wide-ranging, subtle, and richly rewarding study that can be pursued through several strands....This major work of intellectual and cultural history should be in all scholarly libraries and will be well worth the serious attention of students of this period.--
Religious Studies Review
An exceptionally well-researched book, with a wide-ranging approach to its subject. exploring many avenues, often ususual ones.--
The Tablet
Boyd Hilton has written a rich, stimulating, often-fascinating, if rather old-fashioned, intellectual history....An engaging, provocative, first-rate book whose many novel facets cannot be appreciated in a short review but should certainly be explored by students of Victorian culture.--
American
Historical Review
Dr. Hilton's general thesis contains an important truth, and it throws a bold and unconventional light across the whole of nineteenth-century British intellectual history.--
The Catholic Historical Review
Editorial Reviews
Hilton's fascinating, ambitious book does much more to lighten our darkness about the broader significance of evangelicalism....A persuasive and thought-provoking book.--
Journal of British Studies
Once the envy subsides, religious historians who open this extraordinary and arresting book will be strongly tempted to read it twice: once for the persuasive argument it makes about its subject, and a second time for the sheer pleasure of observing intellectual history...practiced at the very highest levels of insight and erudition....No subsequent discussion of society or religion in the age can properly begin without [this book].--
Church History
Historians of this period are going to have to take account of Hilton's careful reading of evangelical theology and its economic implications....This important book confronts us with a puzzling mixture of unresolved relationships between religious values, social classes, material conditions, scientific ideas, and individual consciences. One of the great virtues of this volume is that it forces us to address the dilemma with abundant new information and a renewed sense of urgency.--
Albion
As a contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century British culture,
The Age of Atonement is undoubtedly a study of extraordinary importance and distinction.--
Journal of British Studies
A wide-ranging, subtle, and richly rewarding study that can be pursued through several strands....This major work of intellectual and cultural history should be in all scholarly libraries and will be well worth the serious attention of students of this period.--
Religious Studies Review
An exceptionally well-researched book, with a wide-ranging approach to its subject. exploring many avenues, often ususual ones.--
The Tablet
Boyd Hilton has written a rich, stimulating, often-fascinating, if rather old-fashioned, intellectual history....An engaging, provocative, first-rate book whose many novel facets cannot be appreciated in a short review but should certainly be explored by students of Victorian culture.--
American
Historical Review
Dr. Hilton's general thesis contains an important truth, and it throws a bold and unconventional light across the whole of nineteenth-century British intellectual history.--
The Catholic Historical Review
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