Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissenters, Religious
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Dylanwad ymneilltuaeth ar fywyd y genedl
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissenters, Religious
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In the Shadow of the Pulpit
Author: M. Wynn ThomasPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708323421
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Ranging from the nineteenth-century to the present, this book explores several central aspects of the ways in which the English-language poetry and fiction of Wales has responded to what was, for a crucial period of a century or so, the dominant culture of Wales: the culture of Welsh Nonconformity. In the introduction, the author reflects on why no sustained attempt has hitherto been made to investigate one of the formative cultural influences on modern 'Anglo-Welsh' literature, the Nonconformist inheritance. The importance of addressing this strange and significant cultural deficit is then explained, and a preliminary attempt made to capture something of the spirit of Welsh Nonconformity. The succeeding chapters address and seek to answer such questions as: What exactly did the Welsh chapels believe and do? Why have the English-language writers of Wales, from Caradoc Evans and Dylan Thomas to R.S. Thomas and the authors of today, been so fascinated by them? How accurate are the impressions we've been given of chapel life and chapel people in the English-language poetry and fiction of Wales? The answers offered may alter our views both of the Welsh Nonconformist past and of Welsh writing in English. One of the ideas advanced is that many of Wales' most important writers went to war with the preachers in their texts, and that their work is therefore the site of cultural struggle. Theirs was a war in words waged to determine who would have the last word on modern Welsh experience.
Bibliotheca Celtica
Author: Theologia Cambrensis
Author: D. Densil MorganPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786838079
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
As well as outlining the shape of Welsh religious history generally, this volume describes the development of Calvinistic Methodist thought up to and beyond the secession from the Established Church in 1811, and the way in which the Evangelical Revival impacted the Older Dissent to create a vibrant popular Nonconformity. Along with analysing aspects of theology and doctrine, the narrative assesses the contribution of such key personalities as William Williams Pantycelyn, Thomas Charles of Bala andThomas Jones of Denbigh, and the Nonconformists Titus Lewis, Joseph Harris ‘Gomer’, George Lewis, David Rees and Gwilym Hiraethog. Following the notorious ‘Treachery of the Blue Books’ of 1847 and the Religious Census of 1851, Anglicanism regained ground, and among the themes treated in the latter chapters are the influence of High Church Tractarianism and the Broad Church ‘Lampeter Theology’ in the parishes. The volume concludes by assessing the intellectual culture of evangelicalism personified by Lewis Edwards and Thomas Charles Edwards, and describes the challenges of Darwinism, philosophical Idealism and a more critical attitude to the biblical text.
Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Author: British LibraryFaith and the Crisis of a Nation
Author: Robert Tudur JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
R. Tudur Jones argues that many of the social, cultural and religious issues that would be important in the late 20th century and early 21st century in Wales were already extant a century earlier and that in understanding that period we can learn something of our own time.
Two Centuries of Anglesey Schools, 1700-1902
Author: David A. PrettyPublisher: Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British Library (London)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description