Age of Atonement - The Influence of Evangelicalism on Social Economic Thought 1795 1865

Zusatztext Hilton has written a pioneering work ... He has laid bare the extent to which Christianity moulded the assumptions behind public affairs. Klappentext In this study of the British upper and middle classes during the first half of the 19th century! Boyd Hilton reveals that the people of this age were obsessed with catastrophe: wars! famines! pestilences! revolutions! floods! volcanoes! and the great commercial upheavals which periodically threatened to topple the world's first capitalist system. The dominant evangelical sentiment of the day interpreted such sufferings as part of God's plan and! not wanting to interfere with the dispensations of providence! governments took a harsh! stand-on-your-own-feet attitude towards social underdogs! whether they were bankrupts or paupers. In this work! Hilton studies how the transformation of religious thought--including new ideas about the nature of God and the Atonement--affected the economics! philosophy! science! and politics of the period. Zusammenfassung An examination of the mentality of the first half of the 19th century, when catastrophes and personal misfortune were seen as dispensations of divine providence. In the 1850s and 1860s, however, a different attitude developed. at the centre of which was a new way of understanding the Atonement. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part One: Religious and Economic Thought; Part Two: The Content of Evangelical Social Thought; Part Three: After the Age of Atonement

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• Authors: Boyd Hilton, Boyd (Fellow and Lecturer in History Hilton, Hilton Boyd
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.12.1991
• EAN: 9780198202950
• ISBN: 978-0-19-820295-0
• No. of pages: 428
• Series: Clarendon Paperbacks; Clarendon Paperbacks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History of Ideas, RELIGION / Christianity / Protestant, European History, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, C 1700 To C 1800, Protestantism & Protestant Churches, Protestantism and Protestant Churches