Author: Alexander Roper VidlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Orb and the Cross
Author: Alexander Roper VidlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Orb and the Cross
Author: Alec R. VidlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Orb and the Cross
Author: Alec R. VidlerChurchmen and the Condition of England 1832-1885
Author: G Kitson ClarkPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000639444
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
First published in 1973, this work demonstrates how the English churchmen of the nineteenth century moved from a firmly entrenched position in the old social hierarchy to a less definable and insecure position under the rule of the collectivist State run by a professional workforce. Dr Kitson Clark explores the many questions po
The Historiography of Gladstone and Disraeli
Author: Ian St JohnPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783085304
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This book traces the often sharply differing perspectives historians have formed with regard to the key incidents in the careers of the two foremost politicians of the Victorian age – Gladstone and Disraeli. Following the parallel careers of both men, it focuses upon a series of contentious questions, ranging from why Disraeli opposed Corn Law repeal in 1846 and Gladstone abandoned his High Tory politics for Peelism, to whether Disraeli was ever an Imperialist and why Gladstone took up the cause of Irish Home Rule. By juxtaposing the contrasting interpretations advocated by historians, it brings home to students how history is a continually evolving subject in which every generation poses new questions, or reformulates answers to old ones – encouraging those studying the subject to realise that history is an ongoing dialogue to which they are called upon to contribute.
The Orb and the Cross - A Normative Study in the Relations of Church and State with Reference to Gladstone's Early Writings
Author: Alec R. VidlerPublisher: READ BOOKS
ISBN: 9781406788815
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Contents Include - Historical Background - Gladstone's Theory - Is the State a Moral Personality? - The Visible Church - Truth, Tolerance, and Time - Gladstone's Creed and Career - Appended Note: ''Gladstone and Machiavellianism''
Gladstone Centenary Essays
Author: David BebbingtonPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780853239352
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
W. E. Gladstone towers over the politics of the nineteenth century. He is known for his policies of financial rectitude, his campaigns to settle the Irish question and his championship of the rights of small nations. He remains the only British Prime Minister to have served for four separate terms. In 1998 an international conference at Chester College brought together Gladstone scholars to mark the centenary of his death, and many of the papers presented on that occasion are published in this volume. Covering the whole of the statesman’s long political life from the first Reform Act to the last decade of the nineteenth century, they range over topics as diverse as parliamentary reform and free trade, Gladstone’s English Nonconformist supporters and his Irish Unionist opponents. A select bibliography, arranged by subject, supplies guidance for further research. The collection forms a tribute, appreciative but critical, to the Grand Old Man of British politics.
William Ewart Gladstone
Author: David BebbingtonPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802801524
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. Perhaps the most eminent of eminent Victorians, a master alike of parliamentary debate and public oratory, and regarded as the greatest Christian statesman of his day, William Ewart Gladstone (1809- 1898) governed Britain at a time when the country stood at the apex of the world affairs. In this book historian David Bebbington presents a superb, balanced portrait of Gladstone -- his character, his convictions, his actions, his legacy.
John Keble in Context
Author: Kirstie BlairPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 184331147X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
This unique, interdisciplinary and timely volume offers the first major reassessment of Keble's work for several decades, and a comprehensive introduction to this key figure. 'John Keble in Context' provides a wide range of perspectives on Keble's place in politics and religion, his writings and his influence on his literary heirs and successors.
The Mind of Gladstone
Author: David BebbingtonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199267650
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Gladstone's ideas are far more accessible for analysis now that, following the publication of his diaries, a record of his reading is available. This book traces the evolution of what the diaries reveal as the statesman's central intellectual preoccupations, theology and classical scholarship, as well as the groundwork of his early Conservatism and his mature Liberalism. In particular it examines the ideological sources of Gladstone's youthful opposition to reform beforescrutinizing his convictions in theology. These are shown to have passed through more stages than has previously been supposed: he moved from Evangelicalism to Orthodox High Churchmanship, on to Tractarianism and then further to a broader stance that eventually crystallized as a liberal Catholicism. Hisclassical studies, focused primarily on Homer, also changed over time, from a version that was designed to defend a traditional worldview to an approach that exalted the depiction of human endeavour in the ancient Greek poet. An enduring principle of his thought about religion and antiquity was the importance of community, but a fresh axiom that arose from the modifications of his views was the centrality of all that was human. The twin values of community and humanity are shown to haveconditioned Gladstone's rhetoric as Liberal leader, so making him, in terms of recent political thought, a communitarian rather than a liberal, but one with a distinctive humanitarian message. As a result of a thorough scrutiny of Gladstone's private papers, the Victorian statesman is shown to have deriveda distinctive standpoint from the Christian and classical sources of his thinking and so to have left an enduring intellectual legacy. It becomes apparent that his religion, Homeric studies and political thought were interwoven in unexpected ways.The evolution of Gladstone's central intellectual preoccupations, with religion and Homer, is the theme of this book. It shows how the statesman developed from Evangelism to Orthodox High Churchmanship, on to Tractarianism and then further to a broader stance that eventually crystallized as a liberal Catholicism. It demonstrates also that his Homeric studies developed over time. Neither aspect of his thinking was kept apart from his politics. Gladstone's early conservatism emerged from a blendof classical and Christian themes focusing on the idea of community. While that motif persisted in his speeches as Liberal leader, the category of the human emerged from his religious and Homeric ideas to condition the presentation of his Liberalism. In Gladstone's mind there was an intertwining oftheology, Homeric studies and political thought.