The Old Enemies: Catholic and Protestant in Nineteenth-Century English Culture

ISBN-13: 9780521828109 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 370 str.

Michael Wheeler

Opis

Even in the industrial nineteenth century, age-old theological disagreements were the cause of religious and cultural conflicts between Catholics and Protestants. This book asks why these ancient divisions were so deep and have prevailed and how novelists and poets, theologians and preachers, historians and essayists reinterpreted the religious debates. Michael Wheeler explains how each side misunderstood the other's deeply held beliefs about history, authority, doctrine and spirituality, and, conversely, how these theological conflicts inspired creativity in the arts.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: '…his richly documented study of the controversies of the period. …It is an authoritative and intelligent study of misunderstanding prolonged by prejudice. …The richness of his reading bears fruit in lucid findings. He has read and consulted many books of which his readers will not have heard. Scholars will be in debt to him for his discoveries in unfrequented fields. …There will be very few if any scholars who will not learn a good deal from this book.' The Downside Review

Spis treści

1. Introduction: 'Papal aggression'; Part I. Bloody Histories: 2. On the origin of churches; 3. England drawn and quartered; 4. Jacobite claims and London mobs; Part II. Creeds and Crises: 5. The fortress of Christianity; 6. Out of the war of tongues; 7. Authority on the rocks; Part III. Cultural Spaces: 8. Maiden and mother; 9. Liberalism and dogma; 10. Painful epiphanies; Bibliography; Index.