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The Dissenters: Volume III: The Crisis and Conscience of Nonconformity


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This third and final volume of Michael Watts's study of dissent examines the turbulent times of Victorian Nonconformity, a period of faith and of doubt. Watts assesses the impacts of the major Dissenting preachers and provides insights into the various movements, such as romanticism and the higher, often German, biblical criticism. He shows that the preaching of hell and eternal damnation was more effective in recruiting to the chapels than the gentler interpretations. A major feature of the volume is a thorough analysis of surviving records of attendance at Nonconformist services. He provides fascinating accounts of Spurgeon and the other key figures of Nonconformity, including of the Salvation Army. Dr Watts also provides a fresh discussion of the contribution which Nonconformity made to the politics of mid- to late-Victorian Britain. He examines such issues of reform as Forster's Education Act of 1871, temperance, and Balfour's Education Act of 1902, and considers Nonconformist interventions in such controversies as the Bulgarian Agitation, Home Rule for Ireland, the Armenian massacres of the mid 1890s, and the Boer War. The volume concludes with the Liberal landslide in the 1906 general election, which saw probably more Nonconformists elected than any time since the era of Oliver Cromwell.

Table of Contents:
PART I: 'THE VERY FOUNDATIONS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH': THE CRISIS OF DISSENT 1: 'The God of the hills': The impact of Romanticism 2: 'Destructive of the authority of divine revelation': Genesis, geology, and evolution 3: 'The ground on which Rational Christianity may firmly take its stand': higher criticism and the Unitarians 4: 'An inspired communication from the Deity ... Or ... Nothing': the dilemma of Evangelical Dissenters 5: 'The seal and servant of Christianity': the Spiritualist alternative 6: 'An easy good - natured God': the collapse of Calvinism 7: 'The hateful mystery': the eclipse of eternal punishment 8: 'The sceptical tendencies of modern times': the isolation of Spurgeon 9: 'The heresies of the Baptist Union': the Down Grade 10: 'A conspiracy to undermine our holy faith': the liberal triumph PART II: 'THE HUB AND FOUNT OF SOCIAL LIFE': THE LIBERALIZATION OF DISSENT 11: Church membership and chapel attendance: the consequences of the crisis 12: 'Conversion is not necessary to regeneration': the failure of recruitment 13: Nonconformity's shrinking constituency: the evidence of the dissenting registers 14: 'Influential families lost to conformity': the flight of the bourgeoisie 15: The failure of success: the loss of the poor 16: The 'most spiritually destitute and degraded': missions to the poor 17: 'Diversity of opinion no bar to Christian communion': the relaxation of discipline 18: 'We must not leave Satan to provide the "recreations of life"': the problem of pleasure 19: The 'social and intellectual well-being of our members': the institutional church 20: 'A liberal education': culture without anarchy 21: 'Winning souls' or 'unlimited speculation'?: colleges and universities 22: Frugality and over work: pastors and preachers 23: 'The future rests with the Free Churches': free church union and the Welsh revival PART III: 'WHAT IS MORALLY WRONG CAN NEVER BE POLITICALLY RIGHT': THE CONSCIENCE OF DISSENT 24: 'The largest and widest church ever established': the influence of George Dawson 25: 'Once bit, twice shy': the Forster Education Act 26: 'A torrent of gin and beer': the Nonconformist revolt and liberal defeat 27: 'The right of the people to judge for themselves': Bulgaria and Ireland 28: 'A Mutual Benefit Association': trade unionists and employers 29: Making 'men moral by act of parliament': personal redemption versus environmental reformation 30: 'To reconstruct the existing organization of society': from philanthropy to christian socialism and the new liberalism 31: 'A most astonishing opening, furnished by the providence of God': imperialism and the missionary conscience 32: 'The thunder of British guns': Armenia and the Boer War 33: 'The descendants of men like Oliver Cromwell': the Balfour Education Act and the liberal landslide Index

About the Author :
Michael Watts was Reader in Modern History at the University of Nottingham (1967-1998). He completed the text of his third volume of the Dissenters before he died in 2011. This volume subsequently has been lightly revised and a preface added by Professor David Bebbington.

Review :
magnificent...The reader is dazzled by the amplitude of the research on which the book is based...This reviewer was gripped Full of truly wonderful things. Watts's work will never be superseded ... [his] comprehensiveness is a marvel ... What will confer permanent value on this trilogy is the author's painstaking exactitude with statistical analysis ... Not only did Watts generate most of this data himself; he even rechecked the results of previous scholars. every whit as worthy as its predecessors ... It is excellent ... to have this wide ranging, sophisticated and wholly admirable study of the English and Welsh Dissenters' late Victorian high-noon ... [it] will be indispensable for those who wish to know about the 'enthralling' story of English and Welsh Dissent. The concluding volume of this fine trilogy is comprehensive in scope, persuasive in argument, and charitable in tone. It will be an essential point of departure for all students of nineteenth-century church and society for many years to come. excellent This is a formidably learned book in which Watts shows a masterly knowledge of his subject ... I recommend this work


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780198229698
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 36 mm
  • Weight: 898 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0198229690
  • Publisher Date: 19 Mar 2015
  • Height: 241 mm
  • No of Pages: 512
  • Sub Title: Volume III: The Crisis and Conscience of Nonconformity
  • Width: 168 mm


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