{"product_id":"people-of-one-book-the-bible-and-the-victorians-paperback","title":"People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTimothy Larsen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough the Victorians were awash in texts, the Bible was such a pervasive and dominant presence that they may fittingly be thought of as 'a people of one book'. They habitually read the Bible, quoted it, adopted its phraseology as their own, thought in its categories, and viewed their own lives and experiences through a scriptural lens. This astonishingly deep, relentless, and resonant engagement with the Bible was true across the religious spectrum from Catholics to Unitarians and beyond. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe scripture-saturated culture of nineteenth-century England is displayed by Timothy Larsen in a series of lively case studies of representative figures ranging from the Quaker prison reformer Elizabeth Fry to the liberal Anglican pioneer of nursing Florence Nightingale to the Baptist preacher C. H. Spurgeon to the Jewish author Grace Aguilar. Even the agnostic man of science T. H. Huxley and the atheist leaders Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant were thoroughly and profoundly preoccupied with the Bible. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eServing as a tour of the diversity and variety of nineteenth-century views, Larsen's study presents the distinctive beliefs and practices of all the major Victorian religious and sceptical traditions from Anglo-Catholics to the Salvation Army to Spiritualism, while simultaneously drawing out their common, shared culture as a people of one book.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTimothy 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 \u003cem\u003eCrisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford University Press), which was named Book of the Year by \u003cem\u003eBooks \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.1 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 12, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749853036832,"sku":"9780199667819","price":82.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/fb1971745ce30b2e5dee23827d2be0f9.webp?v=1779939469","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/people-of-one-book-the-bible-and-the-victorians-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}