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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465529103321

Autore

Morris Jeremy <1960->

Titolo

F D Maurice and the Crisis of Christian Authority [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-19-156676-4

0-19-153241-X

9786611164287

0-19-926316-7

1-281-16428-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Collana

Christian Theology in Context

Disciplina

230.3092

Soggetti

Electronic books. -- local

Maurice, Frederick Denison, -- 1805-1872

Theology, Doctrinal -- History -- 19th century

Theology, Doctrinal - History - 19th century

Religion

Christianity

Philosophy & Religion

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: The End of the Old Order; 1. The Demise of the Confessional State; 2. The Emergence of the Maurician Synthesis: A Coleridgean in Theology; 3. The Catholicity of Protestantism: Redescribing the Church; 4. Church and Nation; 5. The Church in Society; 6. The Crisis of Belief; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

F. D. Maurice was a leading nineteenth-century Anglican theologian and social commentator. He pioneered Christian Socialism and became a key influence on the development of the modern Church of England. This study shows his work was driven by a concern to reinvigorate Anglican ecclesiology, and to promote an ecumenism. - ;This book offers a reassessment of the theology of F. D. Maurice (1805-72), one



of the most significant theologians of the modern Church of England. It seeks to place Maurice's theology in the context of nineteenth-century conflicts over the social role of the Church, and ove