Author: John Angell James
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Category : Dissenters, Religious
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: John Pye Smith
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Languages : en
Pages : 642

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Author: Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control
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Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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Author: John Angell James
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Languages : en
Pages : 754

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Author: J. P. Ellens
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271042834
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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This book, covering the period 1832 to 1868, describes how the so-called &"church rates&" controversy contributed to the rise of a secular liberal state in England and Wales. The church rate was an ancient tax required of all ratepayers, regardless of denomination, for the upkeep of parish churches of the Church of England. This meant that Dissenters and other non-Anglicans paid for the support of the established Church. In the 1830s, however, the Dissenters determined to tolerate the situation no longer. The resulting thirty-six-year struggle became the central church-state issue of the Victorian period. Ellens further argues that church rates played a pivotal role in the shaping of Victorian liberalism. Dissenters desired a society in which church and state would be separate and religious affairs voluntary. When Gladstone decided to champion the Dissenters' &"voluntaryist&" cause in the 1860s, he established the relationship that would give him the solid basis of electoral strength he needed to carry out the great liberal reforms of his governments after 1868. Elegantly written and argued, this book carefully details the process of disestablishment in England and Wales and uncovers an important and little-recognized dimension to the formation of the Liberal party.

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Languages : en
Pages : 550

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Languages : en
Pages : 826

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Author: Birmingham Public Libraries
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Category : Birmingham (Ala.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1158

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Author: Samuel Greatheed
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 638

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Author: Timothy Larsen
Publisher: Baylor University Press
ISBN: 0918954932
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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This volume explores the cultural, political, and intellectual forces that helped define nineteenth-century British Christianity. Larsen challenges many of the standard assumptions about Victorian-era Christians in their attempts to embody and their theological commitments. He highlights the way in which Dissenters and other free church Evangelicals employed the full range of theological resources available to them to take stands that the wider culture was still resisting - e.g., evangelical nonconformists enfranchising women, siding with the black population of Jamaica in opposition to their own colonial governor, championing the rights of Jews, Roman Catholics, and atheists. These stances belie the stereotypes of Victorian Evangelicals currently in existence and properly shift the focus to Dissent, to plebeian culture, to social contexts, and to the cultural and political consequences of theological commitments. This study brings freshness and verve to the study of religion and the Victorians, bearing fruit in a range of significant findings and connections.