Anglican Biblical Interpretation in the Nineteenth Century

Cole William Hartin, Ph.D., Wycliffe College and the University of Toronto, is an Associate Rector at Christ Church Episcopal in Tyler, Texas. He has published scholarly articles on nineteenth-century Anglicanism, as well as many popular articles and poems.

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction1 Background: the Interpretation of Scripture and Nineteenth-Century Anglicanism2 Book in Outline: Anglican Biblical Interpretation in the Nineteenth Century1 Charles Simeon and Evangelical Interpretation1 Charles Simeon, Evangelical2 Charles Simeon on the Nature of Scripture3 Charles Simeon’s Exegesis of the Old Testament4 The Gospels and Christology5 The Role of Earlier Interpreters and Evangelical Trajectories6 Broadening the Horizons2 Bishops of Durham and the Doctrine of Scripture: J. B. Lightfoot and B. F. Westcott1 Two Bishops of Durham2 J. B. Lightfoot and the Text of Scripture3 Lightfoot the Theologian?4 B. F. Westcott on History and Theology5 Westcott and Exegesis6 Broad Church, Broader Interpretation3 Benjamin Jowett and Broad Church Interpretation1 From Scripture to Text: Shifts in Anglo-European Scriptural Interpretation2 The Broad Church, Scripture, and Benjamin Jowett3 Jowett on Scripture’s Ontology and Providence4 Authorship and History for Trench and Jowett5 Frederic William Farrar: Providence and Progress in History6 From Interpretation to Application: Jowett on Scriptural Meaning7 Jowett on Language: Expanding the Interpretive Horizon8 The Next Leap: Tractarian Interpretation4 John Keble and Tractarian Interpretation1 The Oxford Movement and the Interpretation of Scripture2 Keble on the Parable of the Good Samaritan3 Another Take on the Parable of the Good Samaritan: Richard Chenevix Trench4 Figural Reading Keble and Pusey5 Patristic Authority? Competing Accounts in Keble and Trench6 Keble and Trench on Providence7 Tractarian Interpretation in Summary5 Another Angle on Tractarian Interpretation: Christina Rossetti1 Christina Rossetti: Tractarian2 Figures of Scripture, Figures of Nature3 Rossetti and Scripture’s Inexhaustibility4 Church Tradition and Interpretation5 Moving beyond Tractarianism6 Pushing the Boundaries: F. D. Maurice1 F. D. Maurice and the Problems of Categorization2 Situating Maurice’s Theological and Scriptural Background3 Discerning God’s Communication: Maurice’s Interpretation of Scripture4 An Exegetical Portrait of F. D. Maurice5 Toward ‘Orthodox’ Trajectories7 Richard Chenevix Trench and ‘Orthodox’ Interpretation1 The ‘Orthodox’ Movement in the Nineteenth Century2 Trench’s Scriptural Conservatism3 Trench’s Scriptural Traditionalism: an Augustinian Heritage4 Trench on Scripture: a Cohesive Vision5 Toward a Critical EvaluationConclusion1 Summary: the Trajectory in Retrospect2 Tracing Lines to the Present3 Theological GleaningsBibliographyIndex