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This thesis provides a comprehensive new interpretation of the life and thought of Henry Longueville Mansel (1820-71). Primary focus is here placed on providing a critical reading of the contextual-theological and socio-political dimensions of his work, locating it in the setting of mid-Victorian religion and politics. This represents a new departure in the study of Mansel, raising a new set of questions of the sources, and moving beyond the history of ideas approach adopted by the existing major studies of his work. Rather than interpreting Mansel one-dimensionally as a figure in the history of British philosophy, narrowly focusing on abstract questions of the philosophy of religion, the task here is to place Mansel in context, and explore his work from a different, more critically aware perspective, alert to the religious and ideological dimensions of mid-Victorian political history. I argue that this approach is invited by an attentive reading of the primary sources themselves, including much hitherto ignored and unexplored archive material, and is necessary for the development of a critical understanding of Mansel in light of the historical evidence. The revised picture of Mansel that emerges from this work is, I argue, more theologically significant and politically resonant than has hitherto been allowed: the conclusions I draw indicate the intellectual fruit of serious engagement with his work

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