A sincere and teachable heart : self-denying virtue in British intellectual life, 1736-1859 / by Richard Bellon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bellon, Richard (Historian)

Series:

History of science and medicine library

History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oxford movement.

History.

Humility.

Social aspects.

Patience.

Virtue--Social aspects.

Virtue.

Self-denial.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century.

Great Britain.

Intellectual life.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.

Self-denial--Social aspects--Great Britain--History.

Virtue--Social aspects--Great Britain--History.

Patience--Social aspects--Great Britain--History.

Humility--Social aspects--Great Britain--History.

Ethics--Great Britain--History.

Ethics.

Great Britain--Moral conditions.

Moral conditions.

Church of England--History.

Church of England.

Oxford movement--History.

Physical Description:

vi, 277 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2015.

Summary:

"In A Sincere and Teachable Heart : Self-Denying Virtue in British Intellectual Life, 1736-1859, Richard Bellon demonstrates that respectability and authority in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain were not grounded foremost in ideas or specialist skills but in the self-denying virtues of patience and humility. Three case studies clarify this relationship between intellectual standards and practical moral duty. The first shows that the Victorians adapted a universal conception of sainthood to the responsibilities specific to class, gender, social rank, and vocation. The second illustrates how these ideals of self-discipline achieved their form and cultural vigor by analyzing the eighteenth-century moral philosophy of Joseph Butler, John Wesley, Samuel Johnson, and William Paley. The final reinterprets conflict between the liberal Anglican Noetics and the conservative Oxford Movement as a clash over the means of developing habits of self-denial"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1. The meaning function of patience and humility

Common things to speak of the meaning of patience and humility in the nineteenth-century British imagination

From virtue to duty the Victorian application of patience and humility to social and intellectual life

Part 2. The eighteenth century

Character and morality in eighteenth-century British thought

The utility of virtue

Patience, utility and revolution

Part 3. Oxford

Oxford and the age of reform

The Oxford movement faith and obedience in a tumultuous and shifting world

Faith and reason in Newman's university sermons

The Hampden affair : divergent paths out of a spiritual wilderness

Thomas Arnold confronts the "Oxford malignants"

The Tamworth letters : virtue and science

Tract go and the trial of patience in the Church of England.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004263369

9004263365

OCLC:

890377757