Modern Christianity and cultural aspirations / edited by David Bebbington and Timothy Larsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bebbington, David, 1949-

Larsen, Timothy, 1967-

Binfield, Clyde, 1940-

Series:

Lincoln studies in religion and society ; 5.

Lincoln studies in religion and society ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and culture.

Dissenters, Religious.

Christian sociology.

Binfield, Clyde, 1940-.

Binfield, Clyde.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xvi, 359 pages : portrait ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Sheffield Academic Press, [2003]

Summary:

Christianity and cultural aspirations are inevitably in tension: the combination invites a suspicion that temporal pursuits have slackened a quest for divine approbation. Nevertheless, as Christians generally believe that worldly success may be a position of influence worth seeking for noble reasons, it is truly an area of tension, rather than merely temptation. This volume explores this lively juxtaposition in the context of modern Britain and America. In fifteen original essays, a range of well-respected scholars examine the cultural aspirations of a broad spectrum of Christians, including Baptists, Congregationalists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Roman Catholics, and Anglicans, as they were expressed in arenas as diverse as politics, education, arthitecture, and sport.

Contents:

A dissenting historian's formation / Clyde Binfield

Professor Clyde Binfield: a critical appreciation / Reg Ward

'Thews and sinews': nonconformity and sport / Hugh McLeod

Nonconformity and the pottery industry / John Briggs

'An important work': building a Victorian chapel / John Handby Thompson

Newman, Pugin and the architecture of the English oratory / Sheridan Gilley

The cultural aspirations of the Welsh clergy / Frances Knight

Honorary doctorates and the nonconformist ministry in nineteenth-century England / Timothy Larsen

Cultural aspiration and the dissenting colleges: the first students at Mansfield College, Oxford / Elaine Kaye

Nonconformists at Cambridge before the First World War / David M. Thompson

Methodist attitudes to education and youth: Halifax, 1800-2000 / John A. Hargreaves

The dissenting political upsurge of 1833-34 / David Bebbington

Educational aspirations versus social hierarchies: the 1906 education bill / John Wigley

Abraham Lincoln, religion and self-improvement / Richard Carwardine

The disruption in London: English Presbyterians and the Scottish Disruption of 1843 / David Cornick

From union to church: autobiographical recollections on congregational ecclesiology in the 1960s / Alan P.F. Sell.

Notes:

"The essays collected in this volume were originally delivered as papers during a conference held at Westminster College, Cambridge, in July 2001 to mark the retirement from the University of Sheffield of Professor Clyde Binfield, OBE"--Pref.

"Bibliography of J.C.G. Binfield's published writings": pages [345]-353.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0826462626

OCLC:

51567962