Timothy Larsen

Gebundenes Buch

A People of One Book

The Bible and the Victorians

Beschreibung

This book vividly recovers the lost world of the Victorians in which everyone thought, spoke, and argued through scripture. Larsen presents lively individual case studies of well known figures from different religious and sceptical traditions, including Florence Nightingale, T. H. Huxley, C. H. Spurgeon and Catherine Booth.

Autor

Timothy Larsen is McManis Professor of Christian Thought, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has been a Visiting Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books including Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England (Oxford University Press), which was named Book of the Year by Books & Culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780199570096
• ISBN-10: 0199570094
• Artikelnr.: 32730523