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Nineteenth-century evangelicals have often been dismissed as anti-intellectual and philistine. Drawing from periodicals, memoirs and letters, Evangelicals and Culture aims to demonstrate that this vision doesn't depict the reality of British evangelicals between 1790 and 1833. By examining evangelicals' leisure pursuits along with their enjoyment of art, music, literature and study, Rosman concludes that they shared the thought and taste of their contemporaries to a far greater extent than is usually acknowledged. Rosman reaches the conclusion that actually, evangelical theology encouraged such activities and that evangelicals regarded recreations which engaged the mind or which could be pursued within the safety of the home as more concordant with spirituality than sensual or worldly pleasures.

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Author:   Doreen M. Rosman
Publisher:   James Clarke & Co Ltd
Imprint:   James Clarke & Co Ltd
Edition:   2nd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780227680346

ISBN 10:   0227680340
Pages:   198
Publication Date:   26 July 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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This book's essence is to challenge the allegation of philistinism against nineteenth century evangelicals, focussing particularly on the years 1790-1830. [ - ] it was interesting to discover the attitudes that they adopt towards their contemporary culture, and the distinctive contributions that some of them made. Peter Murcott in: English Churchmann, 21.-28. September 2012

This book's essence is to challenge the allegation of philistinism against nineteenth century evangelicals, focussing particularly on the years 1790-1830. [ - ] it was interesting to discover the attitudes that they adopt towards their contemporary culture, and the distinctive contributions that some of them made. Peter Murcott in: English Churchmann, 21.-28. September 2012. 'Although in the intervening decades scholars have worked and published in different fields, this still offers an overview which is otherwise hard to find, and for anyone wanting a handle on how culture and religion related in the years before Victoria this is indispensable reading.' Peter S. Forsaith in Wesley and Methodist Studies, Vol. 4, 2012. ... [Evangelicals and Culture] is to be commended on two grounds: as an excellent introduction to an important aspect of a movement in the life of the churches at a critical moment; and, at the same time, pointing up some of the surprising echoes to be found with our contemporary debates which can be given a fresh perspective in the light of history... Paul Ballard, Theological book review, Vol. 24, No 2, 2012.

This book's essence is to challenge the allegation of philistinism against nineteenth century evangelicals, focussing particularly on the years 1790-1830. [ - ] it was interesting to discover the attitudes that they adopt towards their contemporary culture, and the distinctive contributions that some of them made. Peter Murcott in: English Churchmann, 21.-28. September 2012. 'Although in the intervening decades scholars have worked and published in different fields, this still offers an overview which is otherwise hard to find, and for anyone wanting a handle on how culture and religion related in the years before Victoria this is indispensable reading.' Peter S. Forsaith in Wesley and Methodist Studies, Vol. 4, 2012. ... [Evangelicals and Culture] is to be commended on two grounds: as an excellent introduction to an important aspect of a movement in the life of the churches at a critical moment; and, at the same time, pointing up some of the surprising echoes to be found with our contemporary debates which can be given a fresh perspective in the light of history... Paul Ballard, Theological book review, Vol. 24, No 2, 2012. '...Whilst the bibliography has been updated and there are stylistic adjustments, the content and argument of the second edition are unchanged from the original and thus continue to provide an invaluable insight into the Evangelical mind. It is to be hoped that this new edition of Roman's work will reach the wider public that its wisdom has always deserved...' John Briggs, Baptist Quarterly, Volume 45, April 2013

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Doreen Rosman taught history at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, from 1974 to 2001. She is the author of The Evolution of the English Churches 1500 - 2000 (2003).

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