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Christian England: From the Eighteenth Century to the First World War (Vol 3)
Christian England From the Eighteenth Century to the First World War - Vol 3 Author:David L. Edwards David L. Edwards' comprehensive and detailed history of English Christianity is set in the context of its integral relationship with the social and political history of England. Recognizing the impact of Christianity on the lives and imaginations of the English, Edwards focuses more on people, literature, architecture, art, and prayer than o... more »n ecclesiastical administration or theological controversy. The result in a lively and readable account accessible to general readers and students.
In this third and final volume of the series, Edwards takes up the story in the 18th century and tells of the Evangelical and Catholic revivals which helped to make the Victorian Age as religious as it was. His portrait of the Victorian Age shows that "for all its faults it was an age full of courage and creativity, one of the peaks of Christian civilization." The book concludes with a discussion of the controversies between English Christians in the early years of the 20th century and the decline of conventional Christianity which the sudden outbreak of the First World War partly caused and partly revealed.« less