Leonard Elliott-Binns – författare

A wide-ranging and comprehensive history of religion in Victorian England.A comprehensive history of religion in England during the Victorian era, covering such topics as religion and science, religion and history, social problems, the press, literature and art, worship, new critical methods, federation and reunion.The first thirty years of the nineteenth century are treated very briefly, so that the emphasis of the volume is upon the events of the Victoria's reign. Later chapters cover particular topics and issues, showing both the relationship between the churches and the society in which they existed and also major movements within the churches.

A wide-ranging and comprehensive history of religion in Victorian England.A comprehensive history of religion in England during the Victorian era, covering such topics as religion and science, religion and history, social problems, the press, literature and art, worship, new critical methods, federation and reunion.The first thirty years of the nineteenth century are treated very briefly, so that the emphasis of the volume is upon the events of the Victoria’s reign. Later chapters cover particular topics and issues, showing both the relationship between the churches and the society in which they existed and also major movements within the churches.

A study of the development of Christianity in the West based on literary and archaeological evidence, showing how the Church developed in different regions.Appeal is often made in ecumenical discussion between East and West to the standard of the undivided Church of the first centuries of the Christian era, but understanding is not helped by the assumption that the divergences between East and West did not seriously arise in this early period. One of the many services rendered by this history is to show that Western Christendom had distinctive features from the beginning, and that it had a unity of 'culture' other than that imposed by the Papal See.In his use of recent archaeological studies and of the 'apocryphal' New Testament, and in his arrangement of the material at his disposal, the author offers a wide-ranging overview of the growth of the early church. Now available again after several years, The Beginnings of Western Christendom remains an invaluable resource for students of early Christianity and church history.

A study of the development of Christianity in the West based on literary and archaeological evidence, showing how the Church developed in different regions.Appeal is often made in ecumenical discussion between East and West to the standard of the undivided Church of the first centuries of the Christian era, but understanding is not helped by the assumption that the divergences between East and West did not seriously arise in this early period. One of the many services rendered by this history is to show that Western Christendom had distinctive features from the beginning, and that it had a unity of 'culture' other than that imposed by the Papal See.In his use of recent archaeological studies and of the 'apocryphal' New Testament, and in his arrangement of the material at his disposal, the author offers a wide-ranging overview of the growth of the early church. Now available again after several years, The Beginnings of Western Christendom remains an invaluable resource for students of early Christianity and church history.

PrefaceAbbreviations1. Introduction2. Political Conditions3. Social and Economic Conditions4. The Intellectual and Educational Background5. Literature and Art6. Religion in the Early Eighteenth Century7. Revival Movements: Lady Huntingdon8. The Pioneers9. Development in a Changing World10. The Growth of Opposition11. The Calvinist Controversy12. The Separations13. Local Expansion: London14. The South-Eastern Counties15. The Eastern Counties16. The Midlands17. The North18. The West19. Evangelicalism in the Universities20. Evangelical Methods21. Evangelical Doctrines22. The Literature of the Movement23. The Evangelical Achievement24. The Position at 1789Index

PrefaceAbbreviations1. Introduction2. Political Conditions3. Social and Economic Conditions4. The Intellectual and Educational Background5. Literature and Art6. Religion in the Early Eighteenth Century7. Revival Movements: Lady Huntingdon8. The Pioneers9. Development in a Changing World10. The Growth of Opposition11. The Calvinist Controversy12. The Separations13. Local Expansion: London14. The South-Eastern Counties15. The Eastern Counties16. The Midlands17. The North18. The West19. Evangelicalism in the Universities20. Evangelical Methods21. Evangelical Doctrines22. The Literature of the Movement23. The Evangelical Achievement24. The Position at 1789Index