The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume III

The Nineteenth Century

Edited by Timothy Larsen and Michael Ledger-Lomas

The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions

Considers the history of the Protestant Dissenting traditions in the nineteenth-century
Examines the religious histories of Britain, the British Empire, and the United States
Shows that Dissent was a political and constitutional identity, which was often only strong where a dominant Church of England existed to dissent against

The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume III

The Nineteenth Century

Edited by Timothy Larsen and Michael Ledger-Lomas

The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions

Description

The five-volume Oxford History of Dissenting Protestant Traditions series is governed by a motif of migration ('out-of-England'). It first traces organized church traditions that arose in England as Dissenters distanced themselves from a state church defined by diocesan episcopacy, the Book of Common Prayer, the Thirty-Nine Articles, and royal supremacy, but then follows those traditions as they spread beyond England -and also traces newer traditions that emerged downstream in other parts of the world from earlier forms of Dissent. Secondly, it does the same for the doctrines, church practices, stances toward state and society, attitudes toward Scripture, and characteristic patterns of organization that also originated in earlier English Dissent, but that have often defined a trajectory of influence independent ecclesiastical organizations.

The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume III considers the Dissenting traditions of the United Kingdom, the British Empire, and the United States in the nineteenth century. It provides an overview of the historiography on Dissent while making the case for seeing Dissenters in different Anglophone connections as interconnected and conscious of their genealogical connections. The nineteenth century saw the creation of a vast Anglo-world which also brought Anglophone Dissent to its apogee. Featuring contributions from a team of leading scholars, the volume illustrates that in most parts of the world the later nineteenth century was marked by a growing enthusiasm for the moral and educational activism of the state which plays against the idea of Dissent as a static, purely negative identity. This collection shows that Dissent was a political and constitutional identity, which was often only strong where a dominant Church of England existed to dissent against.

The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume III

The Nineteenth Century

Edited by Timothy Larsen and Michael Ledger-Lomas

The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions

List of Contributors
Series Introduction, Timothy Larsen and Mark A. Noll
Introduction, Michael Ledger-Lomas
Part I: Traditions within Britain and Ireland
1. Congregationalists, Timothy Larsen
2. Baptists, Ian Randall
3. Quakers, Thomas C. Kennedy
4. Unitarians and Presbyterians, Michael Ledger-Lomas
5. Methodists and Holiness, Janice Holmes
6. Restorationists and New Movements, Tim Grass
Part II: Traditions outside Britain and Ireland
7. Presbyterians and Congregationalists in North America, David W. Kling
8. Methodists and Holiness in North America, Jay R. Case
9. Baptists in North America, Bill J. Leonard
10. Unitarians, Shakers, and Quakers in North America, Stephen P. Shoemaker
11. Restorationists and New Movements in North America, Douglas A. Foster
12. Colonial Contexts and Global Dissent, Joanna Cruickshank
Part III: Reflection
13. The Bible and Scriptural Interpretation, Mark Noll
14. Theology, David Bebbington
15. Preaching and Sermons, Robert H. Ellison
Part IV: Activism
16. Evangelism, Revivals, and Foreign Missions, Andrew R. Holmes
17. Politics and Social Reform in Britain and Ireland, Eugenio Biagini
18. Social Reform in America, Luke E. Harlow
Part IV: Congregations and Living
19. Gender, S. C. Williams
20. Ministers and Ministerial Training, Michael Ledger-Lomas
21. Spirituality, Worship, and Congregational Life, D. Densil Morgan

The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume III

The Nineteenth Century

Edited by Timothy Larsen and Michael Ledger-Lomas

The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions

Author Information

Timothy Larsen is McManis Professor of Christian Thought, Wheaton College (Illinois), and an Honorary Research Professor at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. His books include Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England (OUP, 2006), A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians (OUP, 2011), and The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith (OUP, 2014). He is currently working on John Stuart Mill: A Secular Life, to be published in Oxford University Press's Spiritual Lives series.

Michael Ledger-Lomas is Lecturer in the History of Christianity at King's College, London. He is the co-editor of Dissent and the Bible in Britain, c.1650-1950 (OUP, 2013) and Cities of God: the Bible and Archaeology in Nineteenth-century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Contributors:

Timothy Larsen
Michael Ledger-Lomas
Timothy Larsen
Ian Randall
Thomas C. Kennedy
Michael Ledger-Lomas
Janice Holmes
Tim Grass
David W. Kling
Jay R. Case
Bill J. Leonard
Stephen P. Shoemaker
Douglas A. Foster
Joanna Cruickshank
Mark Noll
David Bebbington
Robert H. Ellison
Andrew R. Holmes
Eugenio Biagini
Luke E. Harlow
S. C. Williams
Michael Ledger-Lomas
D. Densil Morgan

The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume III

The Nineteenth Century

Edited by Timothy Larsen and Michael Ledger-Lomas

The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions

Reviews and Awards

"This volume provides many fresh angles of vision and its editors are to be commended." -- Journal of British Studies

"this work is thorough and rewarding." -- Robert Jones, Congregational History Society Magazine

"As a learned and concise summary of key themes in the history of the Protestant Dissenting traditions, distilling the work of established scholars and incorporating the latest research, this is a very welcome volume, and the rest of the series is awaited with eager anticipation." -- Martin Wellings, Book Reviews Editor of Wesley and Methodist Studies, Wesley and Methodist Studies

"I find it hard to imagine how one might have done a better job of condensing the range of nineteenth-century Protestant Dissenting thought and practice into a single volume. The choice of topics is thoughtful; the essays are informative and lucid; and the scholarship is impeccable throughout (with the notes alone providing a rich treasure trove of sources). In their series introduction, Larsen and Noll write that "[h]owever imprecise the category of 'Dissent' must remain, the volumes in this series are guaranteedto delight readers with the wealth of their insight" (xix). It is a bold claim, but one that is certainly borne out in this case." -- Mark Knight, Victorian Studies

"This volume contains much that is stimulating, illuminating, provocative, and critical for historians of nineteenth-century religion." -- Martin Spence , Fides et Historia

"...[T]his is a very welcome volume, and the rest of the series is awated with eager anticipation." -- Martin Wellings, Wesley and Methodis Studies

"The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions is an important, illuminating, and well-produced volume. Individual essays contain some masterly exercises in compression. . . . Overall, this volume is an exemplary demonstration of effective collaborative scholarship on a religious movement of central importance to the era it covers and of continuing importance to global Christianity." -- Hilary M. Carey, The Journal of the Historical Association

"This volume admirably presents many wonderfully suggestive proposals about the nature of nineteenth century dissent."--Evan Kuehn, Reading Religion