Wales and the word : historical perspectives on religion and Welsh identity / D. Densil Morgan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morgan, D. Densil.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--Wales--History.

Nationalism.

Nationalism--Religious aspects.

Religion and sociology--Wales.

Religion and sociology.

Religion.

History.

Wales--Religion.

Wales.

Wales--Religious life and customs.

Wales--Church history.

Church history.

Physical Description:

x, 262 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2008.

Contents:

1 John Myles (1621-83) and the future of Ilston's past: Welsh Baptists after three and a half centuries 5

2 Christmas Evans (1766-1838) and the birth of Nonconformist Wales 17

3 Owen Thomas (1812-91) and the 'Lampeter Theology': Nonconformity and liberalism in Victorian Wales 31

4 Llewelyn Ioan Evans (1833-92) and the Princeton Theology: a study in nineteenth-century biblical criticism 55

5 Continuity, novelty and evangelicalism in Wales, c. 1640-1850 88

6 Conflicting commitments? Baptist identity and Welsh national consciousness, 1649 to the present 106

7 The early reception of Karl Barth's theology in Britain: a supplementary view 121

8 Incarnate glory: the spirituality of D. Gwenallt Jones (1899-1968) 142

9 Celts and Christians in the work of Pennar Davies (1911-96) 167

10 Twentieth-century historians of Welsh Protestant Nonconformity 183

11 'The essence of Welshness?': some aspects of Christian faith and national identity in Wales c.1900-2005 211.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-254) and index.

ISBN:

9780708321218

0708321216

OCLC:

190967445